Roger Luckhurst «The Mummy`s Curse: The True History of a Dark Fantasy»
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Roger Luckhurst
The Mummy`s Curse: The True History of a Dark Fantasy
авторская книга, первое издание
Язык издания: английский
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012 г.
Тираж: не указан
ISBN: 978-0-19-969871-4
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Формат: другой
Страниц: 322
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Jacket photographs: (top) @ Bianca van der Werf/Trevillion Picture Library; (bottom) @ rook76/Shutterstock.com.
Содержание:
- Roger Luckhurst. The Mummy`s Curse: The True History of a Dark Fantasy (монография)
- Acknowledgements, c. vii-ix
- List of Illustrations, c. xiii-xiv
- PART ONE: CURSE STORIES
- 1. King Tut and the Dead Earl, с. 3-23
- Opening the Tomb
- First Interpretations
- 2. Thomas Douglas Murray and 22542 (The "Unlucky Mummy"), c. 25-60
- 3. Walter Herbert Ingram and the Coffin of Nesmin, c. 61-84
- PART TWO: CONTEXTS
- 4. Egypt in London I: Immersive-Exotic Spaces, с. 87-118
- 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, с. 119-151
- Egypt at the World's Fairs
- The British Museum in the Empire of Shadows
- 6. The Curse Tale and the Egyptian Gothic, с. 153-183
- 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, с. 185-207
- Rider Haggard's Encounters with Egypt
- Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Haggard and Major E. Arthur Haggard in Egypt
- Rider Haggard's Artefactual Fictions
- 8. Evil Eyes, Punitive Currents and the Late Victorian Magic Revival, с. 209-237
- Late Victorian Hermeticism: Blavatsky's Theosophical Society
- The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn: Haute Magie and Low Comedy
- Magical Thinking and Curse Logic
- Closing in: The Evil Eye Looks Back
- Afterword, с. 239-242
- Notes, с. 243-285
- Bibliography, с. 287-310
- Index, с. 311-321
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