| Popis: |
This chapter offers an analysis of recurrent, generative vogues in the recesses of Egyptophilia, as a subset of darker Egyptian manias found in erotic, cultic, religious, and various speculative gothic forms in the Victorian era. Through nineteenth-century periodicals and newspapers, and canonical and lesser-known pulp and literary gothic fiction, such as Frank Frankfort Moore’s (1895) The Secret of the Court, it examines the movement of Egyptophilia into the popular imagination of Victorian England, with critical aftershocks in the fringe that offer insight into variations of a gothic cult from sociological to occult in the long nineteenth century, and that resonate with increasingly deviant versions of the aesthetics of curiosity. |
