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Dialogues with the Dead - Egyptology in British Culture and Religion, 1822-1922 (Hardcover, New)
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Dialogues with the Dead - Egyptology in British Culture and Religion, 1822-1922 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Classical Presences
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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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