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, 11 but also plays, poems, accounts of the many mummy unwrappings in Britain and the United States, and tours of mummies and their coffins through the United States that occurred during Poe's lifetime. 12 I focus here upon imaginative works that could have motivated Poe. The speech of the mummy The popularisation of ancient Egyptiana in the early nineteenth century in the wake of Napoleon Bonaparte's Egyptian campaign, the publication of the multi
, Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers , p. 270. 37 Stoker, The Jewel of Seven Stars , p. 157. 38 On this subject, see also Jasmine Day's assessment of mummy unwrapping as figurative rape; Day, The Mummy's Curse , p. 43