British Women Writers and the Reception of Ancient Egypt, 1840-1910

<p>Introduction <br/>1. Bound by an English Eye: Ancient Cultures, Imperialist Contexts, and Literary Representations of Egyptian Women<br/>2. Acting as "the right hand . . . of God": Christianized Egyptian Women and Religious Devotion as Emancipation in Florence Nightingale's Fictionalized Treatises<br/>3. "[T]o give new elements . . . as vivid as . . . long familiar types": Heroic Jewish Men, Dangerous Egyptian Women, and Equivocal Emancipation in George Eliot's Novels<br/>4. "[W]e had never chosen a Byzantine subject . . . or one from Alexandria": Emancipation through Desire and the Eastern Limits of Beauty in Michael Field's Verse Dramas <br/>5. The "sweetness of the serpent of old Nile": Revisionist Cleopatra and Spiritual Union as Emancipation in Elinor Glyn's Crosscultural Romances<br/>6. "My ancestor, my sister": Ancient Heritage Imagery and Modern Egyptian Women Writers<br/>Afterword<br/></p>