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Focusing on British women writers' knowledge of ancient Egypt, Youngkin shows the oftentimes limited but pervasive representations of ancient Egyptian women in their written and visual works. Images of Hathor, Isis, and Cleopatra influenced how British writers such as George Eliot and Edith Cooper came to represent female emancipation.
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“British Women Writers and the Reception of Ancient Egypt offers a new perspective on a set of authors and texts which will help to open up the study of Victorian receptions of ancient Egypt, as well as being of interest to scholars and students of nineteenth-century literature, postcolonialisms, and gender studies.” (Laura Eastlake, English Literature in Transition, Vol. 60 (4), 2017)
"Molly Youngkin draws on a remarkably varied range of Victorian and Edwardian woman writers to demonstrate how Egypt—both as ancient empire or modern imperial holding—was never distant from their notions of feminist liberation. Through careful attention to literary detail and allusion, this innovative book explores the previously unexamined connections between the imaginings of colonial British writers and the political possibilities explored by postcolonial Egyptian novelists and poets still writing today." - Neil Hultgren, Associate Professor of English, California State University, Long Beach, USA, and author of Melodramatic Imperial Writing: From the Sepoy Rebellion to Cecil Rhodes"This book offers a timely and important contribution to a growing body of work analyzing the contact between British women writers and so-called 'antique' cultures. Her work is successful in undertaking a complex framework that brings together discussions of imperialism
and women's writing within the specific context of Egypt. This monograph offers essential reading for scholars interested in Victorian culture and antiquity, as well as those working on the history of women's writing." - Churnjeet Mahn, Chancellor's Fellow, University of Strathclyde, UK and author of British Women's Travel to Greece, 1840-1914: Travels in the PalimpsestAbout the author
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Book Title: British Women Writers and the Reception of Ancient Egypt, 1840-1910
Book Subtitle: Imperialist Representations of Egyptian Women
Authors: Molly Youngkin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137566140
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-57076-5Published: 20 January 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-55520-8Published: 09 February 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-56614-0Published: 29 April 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 229
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Literary History, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Gender Studies