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The romance of the Holy Land in American travel writing, 1790-1876

Title
The romance of the Holy Land in American travel writing, 1790-1876 / Brian Yothers.
Author
Yothers, Brian, 1975-
Publication
Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.

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Description
147 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Travelers' writings, American > History and criticism
  • American prose literature > 19th century > History and criticism
  • Middle East > Description and travel
  • Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature
  • Romanticism > United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-144) and index.
Contents
The emergence of the Levant in American literature : Barbary captivity narratives, Oriental romances, and the Holy Land as Protestant trope -- "The all-perfect text" : the skeptical piety of Protestant pilgrims to the Holy Land -- Alternative orthodoxies : Clorinda Minor, Orson Hyde, Warder Cresson, and William Henry Odenheimer -- "Such poetic illusions" : the skeptical Oriental romance of John Lloyd Stephens, Bayard Taylor, George William Curtis, and William Cullen Bryant -- Quotidian pilgrimages : Mark Twain, J. Ross Browne, John William DeForest, and David Dorr in Palestine -- "As seen through one's tears" : the 'double mystery' of place in Herman Melville's Clarel.
Call Number
JFE 07-6356
ISBN
  • 0754654923 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780754654926 (hbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2006036481
OCLC
  • 74965161
  • vendorOCM74965161
Author
Yothers, Brian, 1975-
Title
The romance of the Holy Land in American travel writing, 1790-1876 / Brian Yothers.
Imprint
Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-144) and index.
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JFE 07-6356
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