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- 040 __ |a BTCTA |b eng |c BTCTA |d UKMGB |d YDXCP |d BWK |d YNK |d CDX |d BWX |d CUT |d SKYRV
- 050 _4 |a PN3435 |b .L83 2012
- 099 __ |a CAL 022014000733
- 100 1_ |a Luckhurst, Roger.
- 245 14 |a The mummy's curse : |b the true history of a dark fantasy / |c Roger Luckhurst.
- 260 __ |a Oxford : |b Oxford University Press, |c 2014.
- 300 __ |a xiv, 321 p. : |b ill. ; |c 22 cm.
- 500 __ |a Originally published: 2012.
- 504 __ |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-310) and index.
- 505 0_ |a 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.
- 650 _0 |a Fantasy fiction |x History and criticism.
- 650 _0 |a Mummies in literature.
- 650 _0 |a Mummies in mass media.
- 650 _0 |a Mummy films |x History and criticism.
- 650 _0 |a Popular culture |z English-speaking countries.
- 921 __ |a CASHL |b CEPIEC |c 9780199698714
- 950 __ |a SCNU |f I106.4/L941