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题名/责任者:

The mummy's curse : the true history of a dark fantasy / Roger Luckhurst.

版本说明:

1st ed.

出版发行项:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

ISBN:

9780198718802

ISBN:

9780199698714

ISBN:

0199698716

载体形态项:

xiv, 321 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

个人责任者:

Luckhurst, Roger.

论题主题:

Fantasy fiction-History and criticism.

论题主题:

Mummies in literature.

论题主题:

Mummies in mass media.

论题主题:

Mummy films-History and criticism.

论题主题:

Popular culture-English-speaking countries.

中图法分类号:

I106.4

一般附注:

Originally published: 2012.

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-310) and index.

内容附注:

List of Illustrations -- PART ONE: CURSE STORIES/ 1) King Tut and the Dead Earl -- Opening the tomb -- First interpretations -- 2) Thomas Douglas Murray and 22542 ('The Unlucky Mummy') -- 3) Walter Herbert Ingram and the Coffin of Nesmin -- PART TWO: CONTEXTS/ 4) Egypt in London I: Immersive-Exotic Spaces -- The Egyptian Hall, Belzoni's tomb and 'Mummy' Pettigrew -- The exotic panorama and the theatrical extravaganza -- Bazaars, West End shopping and exotic consumption -- 5) Egypt in London II: The Exhibitionary Universe -- Egypt at the world's fairs -- The British Museum in the empire of shadows -- 6) The Curse Tale and the Egyptian Gothic -- Learning to curse -- Plagues, scarabs and the nuclear option: The golden age of Egyptian curse stories -- The Museum Gothic -- Algernon Blackwood: Egypt introjected -- 7) Rider Haggard Among the Mummies -- Rider Haggard's encounters with Egypt -- Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Haggard and Major E. Arthur Haggard and Egypt -- Rider Haggard artefactual fictions -- 8) Evil Eyes, Punitive Currents and the Late Victorian Magic Revival -- Late Victorian Hermeticism: Blavatsky's Theosophical Society -- Heremtic Order of the Golden Dawn: Haute magie and low comedy -- Magical thinking and curse logic -- Closing in: The evil eye looks back -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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