Nantilus
The romance of the Holy Land in American travel writing, 1790-1876
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| Format : | Livre |
| Langue : | anglais |
| Titre complet : | The romance of the Holy Land in American travel writing, 1790-1876 / Brian Yothers |
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Aldershot, Burlington (Vt.) :
Ashgate
, C 2007 |
| Description matérielle : | 1 vol. (147 p.) |
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- 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