Dialogues with the Dead : Egyptology in British Culture and Religion, 1822-1922

Name: Dialogues with the Dead
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780199653102
Price: 20950 KES
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ISBN: 9780199653102

by David Gange

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Format Hardback

Book Series Classical Presences

ISBN-10 0199653100

ISBN-13 9780199653102

Publisher Oxford University Press

Imprint Oxford University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jun 13th, 2013

Print length 368 Pages

Weight 626 grams

Dimensions 22.30 x 14.60 x 2.60 cms

Product Classification: British & Irish history African history Classical history / classical civilisation Social & cultural history

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Egyptology in British Culture and Religion shows, for the first time, how Egyptology's development over the century that followed the decipherment of the hieroglyphic script in 1822 can only be understood through its intimate entanglement with the historical, scientific, and religious contentions which defined the era.

Almost every great figure in nineteenth-century Britain, from Thomas Carlyle to William Gladstone to Charles Darwin, read histories of ancient Egypt and argued about their content. Egypt became a focal point in disputes over the nature of human origins, the patterns underlying human history, the status and purpose of the Bible, and the cultural role of the classics. Egyptian archaeology ingrained its influence everywhere from the lecture halls of the ancient universities to the devotional aids of rural Sunday schools, and the plots of sensation fiction. Dialogues with the Dead shows, for the first time, how Egyptology''s development over the century that followed the decipherment of the hieroglyphic script in 1822 can be understood only through its intimate entanglement with the historical, scientific, and religious contentions which defined the era.

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