Description:
This famous, strange, wild novel was first issued anonymously by the 'Prince of Puffers', the fashionable publisher Henry Colburn, as a three-volume novel in 1827. This new scholarly edition places it in its previous and contemporary contexts. It concerns the Egyptian mummy of Cheops, who is brought back to life in the year 2126. The novel describes a future filled with advanced technology and features one of the earliest known examples of a "Mummy's curse. It attempted to predict the state of improvement to which this country might possibly arrive.
Brief description: Nickianne Moody was Principal Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Liverpool John Moores University and a trustee of the Science Fiction Foundation. She was interested in early science fiction and fantasy writing particularly by women writers, gothic and late twentieth century feminist and cyberpunk utopias and dystopias. Her research was based on the Liddell Hart Collection of Costume held at Liverpool John Moores University and co-ordinating public engagement with the Femorabilia Collection. Her publications include work on most popular genres, nineteenth and twentieth-century fiction, popular culture and more specifically cultures of reading.