The romance of the Holy Land in American travel writing, 1790-1876
By: Brian Yothers
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
ISBN-13: 9780754654926
Subjects: Travelers' writings, American -- History and criticism; American prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature; Romanticism -- United States; Middle East -- Description and travel
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-144) and index
Table of contents: value: The emergence of the Levant in American literature : Barbary captivity narratives, Oriental romances, and the Holy Land as Protestant trope; value: "The all-perfect text" : the skeptical piety of Protestant pilgrims to the Holy Land; value: Alternative orthodoxies : Clorinda Minor, Orson Hyde, Warder Cresson, and William Henry Odenheimer; value: "Such poetic illusions" : the skeptical Oriental romance of John Lloyd Stephens, Bayard Taylor, George William Curtis, and William Cullen Bryant; value: Quotidian pilgrimages : Mark Twain, J. Ross Browne, John William DeForest, and David Dorr in Palestine; value: "As seen through one's tears" : the 'double mystery' of place in Herman Melville's Clarel