Dialogues with the Dead : Egyptology in British Culture and Religion, 1822-1922
by
David Gange
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Hardback or Cased Book
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
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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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