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Following in the footsteps of Napoleon's army, Europeans invaded Egypt in the early nineteenth century to gaze in wonder at the massive, inscrutable remains of its ancient civilizations. One of these travelers was a twenty-four-year-old Englishman, John Gardner Wilkinson. His copious observations of ancient and modern Egyptian places, artifacts, and lifeways, recorded in such widely read publications as Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians and Handbook for Travellers in Egypt, made him the leading early Victorian authority on ancient Egypt and paved the way for thc scientific study of Egyptology. In this first full-scale biography of Wilkinson (1797-1875), Jason Thompson skillfully portrays both the man and his era. He follows Wilkinson during his initial sojourn in Egypt (1821-1833) as Wilkinson immersed himself in a contemporary Egyptian lifestyle and in study of its ancient past. He shows Wilkinson in his circle of friends—among them Edward William Lane, Robert Hay and Frederick Catherwood. And he traces how Wilkinson continued to use his Egyptian material in the decades following his return to England. With the rise of professional Egyptology in the middle and later nineteenth century, Sir Gardner Wilkinson came to be viewed as an amateur and his popularity diminished. Drawing upon recently opened sources, Thompson returns Wilkinson to his rightful place within centuries of Egyptian scholarship and assesses both the vision and the limitations of his work. The result is a compelling portrait of a Victorian "gentleman-scholar" and his cultural milieu.
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: Biography & Autobiography |
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: Jason Thompson |
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: University of Texas Press |
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: 2010-07-22 |
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: 342 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780292785694 |
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The discovery of ancient Egypt and the development of Egyptology are momentous events in intellectual and cultural history. The history of Egyptology is the story of the people, famous and obscure, who constructed the picture of ancient Egypt that we have today, recovered the Egyptian past while inventing it anew, and made a lost civilization comprehensible to generations of enchanted readers and viewers thousands of years later.
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: Egypt |
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: Jason Thompson |
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: Oxford University Press |
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: 2015 |
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: 377 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789774165993 |
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: 1875 |
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: 576 Pages |
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: BSB:BSB11312876 |
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: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland |
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: 1875 |
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: 574 Pages |
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: ONB:+Z227238509 |
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: Anthropology |
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: 1875 |
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: 576 Pages |
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: UCR:31210008825083 |
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List of members included in each volume except v. 1.
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: Cumberland (England) |
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: Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society |
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: |
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: 1881 |
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: 484 Pages |
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: OXFORD:303276246 |
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: Engineering |
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: 1873 |
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: 594 Pages |
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: MINN:31951D00571971M |
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: 1873 |
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: 686 Pages |
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: BSB:BSB11046131 |
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: Science |
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: 1873 |
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: 608 Pages |
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: HARVARD:32044048668610 |
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: Science |
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: 1873 |
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: 568 Pages |
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: UIUC:30112088378580 |