TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yothers,Brian
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - The romance of the Holy Land in American travel writing, 1790-1876
AV  - PS366.T73 Y68 2007eb
U1  - 810.9/325694 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Aldershot, Hants, England, Burlington, VT
PB  - Ashgate
KW  - Travelers' writings, American
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - American prose literature
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature
KW  - Romanticism
KW  - United States
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - 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
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10211331
ER  -