Emasculating Mummies: Gender and Psychological Threat in Fin-de-Siècle Mummy Fiction

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Notes on Contributor

Eleanor Dobson is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Birmingham. Her current work focuses on the reception of ancient Egypt in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. More broadly, she is interested in the materiality and history of the book, as well as notions of the supernatural and the occult, particularly as these ideas operate at the edges of a range of scientific discourses.

Notes

1 Doyle refers to the location as “Old College” (1892, 525) feigning to conceal a real Oxford college’s identity to make the narrative appear as a factual account. The image that precedes the narrative, however—of Christ Church College—suggests this as the setting for the central events in his tale.