EGYPTOMANIA.org
updated 14 April 2006
©2004-2006 Noreen Doyle
(An incomplete and in progress)
Annotated Bibliography
for
Egyptomania, the Egyptian Revival, Egyptianizing Works, Egyptiana, and Related Matters

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Pharaonic Egypt in Foreign Post-Roman Contexts


Museums, Collections , Exhibits & Excavations


Biography & Autobiography


Period Source Material for the Decorative Arts & Architecture


Web Sites

Web Sites  

American Egyptomania.  <<http://chnm.gmu.edu/egyptomania/index.html>> An interdisciplinary project at George Mason University. 

Ancient Egypt in Fiction: a bibliography in progress.  <<http://members.aol.com/wenamun/Egyptfiction.html>> An annotated bibliography of long and short fiction in several languages, divided into genres. 

Ancient Egypt in the Movies. <<http://docs.artun.ee/egypt/wwae/movie/main.html>>

The Ancient Egypt Film Site.  <<http://www.wepwawet.nl/films/>>

The Ancient Egypt Site: movies. <<http://www.ancient-egypt.org/wwae/movies/>>

Art on the Screen; or the film of Tutankhamen.  <<http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG00/rekas/tut/paper/tutmovie.htm>>  Comments on the techniques used to produce the elaborate historical settings for this film. On-line version of Corlett 1923.

The Development of Egyptian Revival Architecture in San Diego County, by Helen McCormick Hobbs-Halmay. <<http://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/92spring/revival.htm>>  Online version of Hobbs-Halmay 1992.

Egiptomania w Polsce - Egyptomania in Poland. <<http://www.egiptologia.pl/egiptomania/>> Covers the architectural and decorative Egyptian Revival in Poland. Text in Polish with brief English abstracts.

Egyptian Revival. <<http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/egyptrev.html>> Digital Archive of American Architecture.

Egyptian Revival architecture.  <<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Revival_architecture>>

Egyptomania.  <<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptomania>>

Egyptomania! <<http://picpal.com/afriart.html>> Review of  Humbert &al. 1994.

Egyptomania in Europe.  <<http://www.mkg-hamburg.de/english/ausstell/02_pyram/aegyptomanie_content.htm>>

Egyptomania Portal <<http://www.egyptomania.de/>>

"Egyptomania!" rages in Paris: taking a new look at an old fancy. <<http://www.metropoleparis.com/1998/305/egypt305.html>>

Egyptomania! Western art that is inspired by Egyptian art, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria. <<http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_n11_v82/ai_15918905>>  Review of the exhibit for which Humbert &al. 1994 is the catalog.  Online version of Porterfield 1994.

Egyptomania Today. << http://web.ukonline.co.uk/gavin.egypt/egyptoma.htm>>

From Marco Polo to Leibniz: stories of intercultural misunderstanding by Umberto Eco <<http://www.italianacademy.columbia.edu/pdfs/lectures/eco_marco.pdf>> Text of a lecture delivered 10 December 1996 at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America.

The Gaze of the Beholder:  how national identity in nineteenth-century England was reinforced by the collection and display of ancient Egyptian material culture by Sharon Elleana Murray. <<http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-11152004-210811/>> On-line version of Murray 2004.

Mother of the world, by Ingrid D. Rowland.  <<http://www.nybooks.com/articles/article-preview?article_id=1822>> Online version of Rowland 1995, reviewing Humbert &al. 1994.  Free preview, fee for full article.

Oklahoma's Egyptian Revival Architecture, by Gregory Bucher. <<http://moses.creighton.edu/bucher/Interests%20pages/Omaha%20Houses/Egyptian_revival.htm>>

Saudi Aramco World: The Egyptian Revival.  <<http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/198201/the.egyptian.revival.htm>>

NEW (7/06): Shades of ancient Egypt found in Nevada, by Ron James <<http://dmla.clan.lib.nv.us/docs/dca/thiswas/thiswas09.htm>>

A Short Tour of San Diego Egyptomania, by deTraci Regula.  <<http://egyptmonth.com/mag08012000/mag3.htm>> (Scroll down th page for this brief article.)

The Westernization of Egypt: the power of innovation in Hollywood's The Mummy (1932, 1999 versions), by Ari Okano. <<http://www.washington.edu/research/urp/sinst/pubs/2002/>>

This Way to the Mummies., by S. J. Wolfe. <<http://home.earthlink.net/~perseshen/id13.html>> An ancient mummy of a child, buried in a Vermont (USA) cemetery, marked by a headstone carved with an attempt at hieroglyphs. 

Wikipedia article:  Egyptian Revival <<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Revival>>


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