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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
- 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.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- JFE 07-6356