The romance of the Holy Land in American travel writing, 1790-1876 [electronic resource] / Brian Yothers.
By: Yothers, Brian.
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BookPublisher: Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007Description: 147 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Travelers' writings, American -- History and criticism | American prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature | Romanticism -- United States | Middle East -- Description and travelGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 810.9/325694 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 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.
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