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Romantic Egypt - Abyssal Ground of British Romanticism (Hardcover)
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Romantic Egypt - Abyssal Ground of British Romanticism (Hardcover)
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Romantic Egypt: Abyssal Ground of British Romanticism traces the
historical, cultural and intellectual affiliations between Ancient
Egypt and Romantic-period Britain and Germany, including the
influences contributed by European thought, politics, and
interventions such as Napoleon's 1799 Egyptian Campaign. Until the
contributions of Napoleon's expedition to scientific knowledge of
Ancient Egyptian monuments and ruins, Egypt had been largely
swathed in mystical explanations of its past, its achievements, its
beliefs, and its cultural importance; however, the increased
knowledge about Ancient Egypt competed with the allure of a more
mythically imbued antiquity in the Romantic imagination. Romantic
Egypt argues that this balance between knowing and not-knowing,
between deciphering and imagining a golden-age Egypt, between
enlightened thought and mysticism, was essential to the development
of the Romantic imaginary because, for the Romantics, western
philosophy and art had their birth in the all-but-lost wisdom of
Ancient Egypt.
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