Romance of the Holy Land in American Travel Writing, 1790-1876

Contents: 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; Bibliography; Index.

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• Estudos literários: c 1500 a c 1800
• Religião: geral
• Literatura: história e crítica
• Estudos literários: geral
• Estudos literários: c 1800 a c 1900