TY - GEN digital ID - 131560356 TI - British Women Writers and the Reception of Ancient Egypt, 1840–1910 : Imperialist Representations of Egyptian Women PY - 2016 SN - 9781137566140 PB - New York Palgrave Macmillan US :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan DB - UniCat KW - Science KW - wetenschap KW - vrouwen KW - wetenschappen KW - English literature: authors KW - Glyn, Elinor KW - Cleopatra VII KW - Nightingale, Florence KW - Eliot, George KW - Field, Michael KW - Antiquity KW - anno 1800-1899 KW - anno 1900-1909 KW - anno 1910-1919 KW - Egypt UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131560356 AB - This book shows how British women writers' encounters with textual and visual representations of ancient Egyptian women such as Hathor, Isis, and Cleopatra influenced how British women represented their own desired emancipation in novels, poetry, drama, romances, and fictional treatises. Molly Youngkin argues that canonical women writers such as Florence Nightingale and George Eliot—and less canonical figures such as Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper (who wrote under the name 'Michael Field') and Elinor Glyn—incorporated their knowledge of ancient Egyptian women's cultural power in only a limited fashion when presenting their visions for emancipation. Often, they represented ancient Greek women or Italian Renaissance women rather than ancient Egyptian women, since Greek and Italian cultures were more familiar and less threatening to their British audience. This notable distinction opens up discussions about the history of British women, their writing, and the British view on gender in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. ER -