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

by Yothers, Brian,
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Published by : Ashgate, (Aldershot, Hants, England ; | Burlington, VT :) Physical details: 147 p.
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 travel. | Electronic books.
Year: 2007
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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, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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