ISBN:
9780199698714
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 321 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
DDC:
398.41094109034
Keywords:
Fantasy fiction History and criticism
;
Mummies in literature
;
Mummies in mass media
;
Mummy films History and criticism
;
Popular culture
;
Ägypten
;
Ausgrabung
;
Mumie
;
Fluch
;
Geschichte 1850-1950
;
Englisch
;
Horrorliteratur
;
Ägypten
;
Mumie
;
Geschichte 1850-1950
Description / Table of Contents:
King Tut and the dead earlThomas Douglas Murray and 22542 (the 'unlucky mummy) -- Walter Herbert Ingram and the coffin of Nesmin -- Egypt in London I: immersive-exotic spaces -- Egypt in London II: the exhibitionary universe -- The curse tale and the Egyptian gothic -- Rider Haggard among the mummies -- Evil eyes, punitive currents and the late Victorian magic revival.
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 287-310
