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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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This book shows how British women writers' encounters with textual and visual representations of ancient Egyptian women such as Hathor, Isis, and Cleopatra influenced how British women represented their own desired emancipation in novels, poetry, drama, romances, and fictional treatises. Molly Youngkin argues that canonical women writers such as Florence Nightingale and George Eliot--and less canonical figures such as Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper (who wrote under the name 'Michael Field') and Elinor Glyn--incorporated their knowledge of ancient Egyptian women's cultural power in only a limited fashion when presenting their visions for emancipation. Often, they represented ancient Greek women or Italian Renaissance women rather than ancient Egyptian women, since Greek and Italian cultures were more familiar and less threatening to their British audience. This notable distinction opens up discussions about the history of British women, their writing, and the British view on gender in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Title British Women Writers and the Reception of Ancient Egypt, 1840-1910: Imperialist Representations of Egyptian Women
Author Molly Youngkin
Binding Hardcover
Pages 229
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Palgrave MacMillan
Date 2016-01-20
Illustrated Yes
ISBN 9781137570765 / 1137570768
Weight 0.99 lbs (0.45 kg)
Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.63 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.60 cm)
Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Cultural Region: British
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Women's Interest
Library of Congress subjects Women in literature, English literature - 19th century - History
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015023508
Dewey Decimal Code 820.935

About the author

Molly Youngkin is Professor of English at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, USA. Her previous publications include Feminist Realism at the Fin de Sicle: 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).

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