Reading the Sphinx
Ancient Egypt in Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture
by L. Parramore
199 pages· 2008· ISBN 9780230615700
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Reading the Sphinx unearths buried conflicts in religion, myth, and the memory of Egypt in the West, illuminating issues of identity, inheritance, gender, and sexuality through cultural productions ranging from Herodotus to Freud.
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