The Egyptian Museum in Fiction: The Mummy’s Eyes as the ‘Black Mirror’ of the Empire

This article considers the way the late nineteenth-century genre of mummy fiction represents the exhibition of Egyptian mummies in the space of private or public museums. In the context of the constitution of the ‘imperial archive’ (Thomas Richards), the museum plays a substantial role and the inter...

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Main Author: Nolwenn Corriou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2021-06-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cve/8779
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