Writing the Sphinx : : Literature, Culture and Egyptology / / Eleanor Dobson.
Unearths a rich tradition of creative flexibility, collaboration and mutual influence between literary culture and EgyptologyThe first monograph study to bring literature into conversation with Egyptological cultureIncorporates a number of archival primary sources which have, until now, escaped crit...
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