Nolwenn Corriou
Biographic Data
| ID | 9584294 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nolwenn Corriou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nolwenn |
| FAMILY NAME | Corriou |
| SIGNATURE | CORRIOU N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Archaeology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Egyptian Museum in Fiction
This article considers the way the late nineteenth-century genre of mummy fiction represents the exhibition of Egyptian mummies in the space of private or public museums. In the context of the constitution of the ‘imperial archive’ (Thomas Richards), the museum plays a substantial role and the interactions between the archaeologist or museum visitor and the mummy in fiction can be interpreted in imperial terms, archaeological processes of excavat…
Excavating the Modern Self
Henry Rider Haggard’s Egyptomania took many shapes, from regular journeys to Egypt to extensive collections of ancient Egyptian artefacts. This article looks more particularly at Haggard’s representation of ancient Egypt in his literary works and at the implications of his narrative choices in the scientific and imperial context in which he wrote his Egyptological romances. By establishing genealogical links between ancient Egypt and modern Brita…
The Return of the Victorian Mummy
As part of the Dark Universe reboot of Universal Monsters, Alex Kurtzman’s movie, The Mummy (2017) was meant to give new life to the Victorian monsters that fascinated Hollywood in the 1940s and 1950s. As it happened, the film also gave new life to the ideological dynamics of Victorian and Edwardian mummy fiction by displacing them to reflect current global issues. Indeed, the anxieties and obsessions put forward by the authors of mummy fiction (…
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Excavating the Modern Self
Henry Rider Haggard’s Egyptomania took many shapes, from regular journeys to Egypt to extensive collections of ancient Egyptian artefacts. This article looks more particularly at Haggard’s representation of ancient Egypt in his literary works and at the implications of his narrative choices in the scientific and imperial context in which he wrote his Egyptological romances. By establishing genealogical links between ancient Egypt and modern Brita…
The Return of the Victorian Mummy
As part of the Dark Universe reboot of Universal Monsters, Alex Kurtzman’s movie, The Mummy (2017) was meant to give new life to the Victorian monsters that fascinated Hollywood in the 1940s and 1950s. As it happened, the film also gave new life to the ideological dynamics of Victorian and Edwardian mummy fiction by displacing them to reflect current global issues. Indeed, the anxieties and obsessions put forward by the authors of mummy fiction (…
The Egyptian Museum in Fiction
This article considers the way the late nineteenth-century genre of mummy fiction represents the exhibition of Egyptian mummies in the space of private or public museums. In the context of the constitution of the ‘imperial archive’ (Thomas Richards), the museum plays a substantial role and the interactions between the archaeologist or museum visitor and the mummy in fiction can be interpreted in imperial terms, archaeological processes of excavat…
Ancient history (3 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Empire (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research (2 works) · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (1 work)