Research Catalog

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Description

1. 147 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

1. Travelers' writings, American > History and criticism
2. American prose literature > 19th century > History and criticism
3. Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature
4. Romanticism > United States
5. Middle East > Description and travel

Contents

1. 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.

Call number

1. JFE 07-6356

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-144) and index.

Author

1. Yothers, Brian, 1975-

Title

1. The romance of the Holy Land in American travel writing, 1790-1876 / Brian Yothers.

Imprint

1. Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-144) and index.

Connect to:

1. Table of contents only

LCCN

1. 2006036481

ISBN

1. 0754654923 (hbk. : alk. paper)
2. 9780754654926 (hbk. : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JFE 07-6356