Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front matter i
2. Dedication v
3. Contents vii
4. List of figures ix
5. List of contributors xi
6. Acknowledgements xiv
7. Introduction 1
8. 1 Allamistakeo awakes 20
9. 2 Adam Bede 43
10. 3 Remembering Mrs Potiphar 68
11. 4 Prefiguring the cross 90
12. 5 ‘The culminating flower of cat-worship in Egypt’ 114
13. 6 ‘A Memnon waiting for the day’ 139
14. 7 Perfume, cigarettes and gilded boards 162
15. 8 The intelligibility of the past in Bram Stoker’s The Jewel of Seven Stars 185
16. Select bibliography 207
17. Index 222