Victorian Alchemy / / Eleanor Dobson.
Victorian Alchemy explores nineteenth-century conceptions of ancient Egypt as this extant civilisation was being ?rediscovered? in the modern world. With its material remnants somewhat paradoxically symbolic of both antiquity and modernity (in the very currentness of Egyptological excavations), anci...
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