Reading the Sphinx: Ancient Egypt in Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture

Description

Reading the Sphinx unearths buried conflicts in religion, myth, and the memory of Egypt in the West, illuminating issues of identity, inheritance, gender, and sexuality through cultural productions ranging from Herodotus to Freud.

Keywords

EGYPTIAN LITERATURE_HISTORY AND CRITICISM

2008Book

Author(s)Lynn Parramore

PublisherPalgrave Macmillan

ISBN9780230603288

LanguageEnglish

SpringerLink Book

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