The romance of the Holy Land in American travel writing, 1790-1876 / Brian Yothers.

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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [139]-144) and index.
LCCN 2006036481
ISBN0754654923 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780754654926 (hbk. : alk. paper)

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