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Introduction
1. Bound by an English eye: ancient cultures, imperialist contexts, and literary representations of Egyptian women
2. Acting as "the right hand ... of God": Christianized Egyptian women and religious devotion as emancipation in Florence Nightingale's fictionalized treatises
3. "[T]o give new elements ... as vivid as ... long familiar types": heroic Jewish men, dangerous Egyptian women, and equivocal emancipation in George Eliot's novels
4. "[W]e had never chosen a Byzantine subject ... or one from Alexandria": emancipation through desire and the Eastern limits of beauty in Michael Field's verse dramas
5. The "sweetness of the serpent of old Nile": revisionist Cleopatra and spiritual union as emancipation in Elinor Glyn's cross-cultural romances
6. "My ancestor, my sister": ancient heritage imagery and modern Egyptian women writers
Afterword.
1. Bound by an English eye: ancient cultures, imperialist contexts, and literary representations of Egyptian women
2. Acting as "the right hand ... of God": Christianized Egyptian women and religious devotion as emancipation in Florence Nightingale's fictionalized treatises
3. "[T]o give new elements ... as vivid as ... long familiar types": heroic Jewish men, dangerous Egyptian women, and equivocal emancipation in George Eliot's novels
4. "[W]e had never chosen a Byzantine subject ... or one from Alexandria": emancipation through desire and the Eastern limits of beauty in Michael Field's verse dramas
5. The "sweetness of the serpent of old Nile": revisionist Cleopatra and spiritual union as emancipation in Elinor Glyn's cross-cultural romances
6. "My ancestor, my sister": ancient heritage imagery and modern Egyptian women writers
Afterword.