Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie in Egypt

Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-3-032-38100-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

Reihe: Crime Files

This book investigates the crossover between Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie in the 1920s as Christie’s career is accelerating and Conan Doyle reaches his final decade. This forms the lens through which the book explores their engagements with the discovery of Tutankhamun’s resting place in the Valley of the Kings in 1922, and their respective cultural interests in Egypt’s past and present. Through its exploration of the authors’ fictions and travel writings on Egypt, this book examines the positioning of Egypt’s ancient past and present in writings which collectively span the late nineteenth century to the Second World War. This was a period shaped by colonial archaeology and empire.  

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wynne, Catherine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Conan Doyle’s fictions of Ancient Egypt (5000).- 2: Conan Doyle’s Nile Travels (3000).- 3: Christie in Egypt and Tutmania in the 1920s: ‘The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb’ (5000).- 4: Curses and Superstitions: The ‘Mummy Board’, and ‘The Egyptian Tomb’ (5000).- 5: Crimes on the Nile: From to (7000).- 6: Conclusion (2000).

Über Autor(innen)

Catherine Wynne is Chair in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Literary and Visual Cultures at the University of Hull, UK. An interdisciplinary and publicly oriented scholar, she is a published expert on Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker and the British war artist, Lady Butler. Wynne has contributed to numerous UK and international radio features and documentaries, and delivered talks to museums, festivals, societies and universities. She has published over 30 books, articles and chapters across her career so far. She also sits on the editorial board for the Palgrave Gothic book series.