'A Woman is a Woman, if She had been Dead Five Thousand Centuries!':Mummy Fiction, Imperialism and the Politics of Gender

Corriou, Nolwenn

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“…While the frightening and violent male mummy familiar to us through 20th‐century monster movies is by no means absent from Victorian literature (see Arthur Conan Doyle's, , short story “Lot No. 249”; Guy Boothby's, , Pharos, The Egyptian ; and Roger Luckhurst's, , study The Mummy's Curse: The True History of a Dark Fantasy ), scholars like Bradley Deane (, ), Ailise Bulfin (), and Nolwenn Corriou () have noted the pervasiveness of alluring female mummies in Victorian fiction and the ways in which they shaped Victorian discourses of gender.…”

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Victorian literature and archaeology: Contemporary excavations

Blumberg¹

2018

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This article surveys recent scholarship tracing archaeological discourse in Victorian literature. While scholars in the past two decades have produced many valuable works investigating the Victorian literature of science, archaeology's disciplinary fluidity and infancy in the 19th century have relegated it often to a marginal place in studies of imperialism, museum culture, or limited to brief mentions in studies of Victorian Hellenism or Egyptology. Recent work, however, locates archaeology at the center of Victorian literary explorations of gender, sexuality, material culture, temporality, and aesthetic form. Tracing many of these studies, and suggesting future directions for scholarship, this essay reveals how Victorian writers turned to archaeology to understand themselves and their modernity.

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confidence: 99%