Yothers, Brian, 1975-
The romance of the Holy Land in American travel writing, 1790-1876 [electronic resource] / Brian Yothers. - Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007. - 147 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Travelers' writings, American--History and criticism.
American prose literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature.
Romanticism--United States.
Middle East--Description and travel.
Electronic books.
PS366.T73 / Y68 2007eb
810.9/325694
The romance of the Holy Land in American travel writing, 1790-1876 [electronic resource] / Brian Yothers. - Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007. - 147 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Travelers' writings, American--History and criticism.
American prose literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature.
Romanticism--United States.
Middle East--Description and travel.
Electronic books.
PS366.T73 / Y68 2007eb
810.9/325694