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The romance of the Holy Land in American travel writing, 1790-1876
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- Creator
- Brian Yothers
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- Language
- English
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- Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2007]
- ©2007
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- 147 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0754654923, 9780754654926
- OCLC
- ocm74965161
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [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