British Women Writers and the Reception of Ancient Egypt, 1840-1910: Imperialist Representations of Egyptian Women

Molly Youngkin is Professor of English at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, USA. Her previous publications include Feminist Realism at the Fin de Siecle: The Influence of the Late-Victorian Woman's Press on the Development of the Novel (2007) and an annotated edition of Sarah Grand's 1888 novel Ideala (2008).

Title: British Women Writers and the Reception of Ancient Egypt, 1840-1910: Imperialist Representations of Egyptian Women

Author: Youngkin, Molly

ISBN: 9781137570765

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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2016-01-20

Number of Pages: 229

Weight: 0.4310 kg

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)