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

Main Author: Yothers, Brian, 1975-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10211331
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300 |a 147 p. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [139)-144) and index. 
505 0 |a 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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650 0 |a Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature. 
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651 0 |a Middle East  |x Description and travel. 
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