'A Woman is a Woman, if She had been Dead Five Thousand Centuries!':Mummy Fiction, Imperialism and the Politics of Gender
This article tackles the way the archaeological fiction of the late-Victorian and Edwardian eras constructs the work of Egyptology as a gendered pursuit, which brings about the encounter of an archaeologist, who embodies the masculine values of the British empire, and a female–and highly sexualised–...
Main Author: | Nolwenn Corriou |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès
2015-07-01
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Series: | Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone |
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Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/miranda/6899 |
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