The Gaze of the Beholder: How National Identity in Nineteenth Century England Was Reinforced by the Collection and Display of Ancient Egyptian Material Culture
This thesis explores how the British Museum, David Roberts and Francis Frith asserted English identity throughout first part of the nineteenth-century. I argue that they did this through the collection and display of ancient Egyptian imagery. For each example, I apply the concept of the gaze. The ga...
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| Online Access: | http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_migr_etd-2172 |