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# Contents

- Introduction
- 1 European exploration of Egypt
- 2 The lens of ‘Orientalism’
  - 2.1 Gustave Flaubert – novelist
  - 2.2 Amelia Edwards – traveller
  - 2.3 Howard Carter – archaeologist
- 3 West versus East
  - 3.1 The views of G.W.F. Hegel
- 4 Orientalism and European art
  - 4.1 Inspiring the Victorians
- 5 The avant-garde and Paul Gauguin
  - 5.1 Paul Gauguin
- 6 Twentieth-century popular culture
- 7 Beyond the myths
  - Summary
- Acknowledgements

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