The romance of the Holy Land in American travel writing, 1790-1876:
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Main Author: Yothers, Brian (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, Hants, England Ashgate ©2007
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 139)-144) and index
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
Brian Yothers puts American travel writing about the Holy Land by major writers like Twain and Melville in dialogue with missionary accounts, captivity narratives, chronicles of religious pilgrimages, and travel writing in the genteel tradition. The profound intertextuality American travel writing shares with Hebrew and Christian scriptures and with British and continental travel narratives is striking, as is the critique of nascent imperial discourse Yothers examines in Melville's Clarel
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (147 pages)
ISBN:9780754686507
0754686507
9780754654926
0754654923

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