Brian Yothers

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

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Produktbeschreibung

Brian Yothers puts American travel writing about the Holy Land by major writers like Twain and Melville in dialogue with missionary accounts, captivity narratives, chronicles of religious pilgrimages, and travel writing in the genteel tradition. The profound intertextuality American travel writing shares with Hebrew and Christian scriptures and with British and continental travel narratives is striking, as is the critique of nascent imperial discourse Yothers examines in Melville's Clarel.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9780754654926
• ISBN-10: 0754654923
• Artikelnr.: 45540226

Autorenporträt

Professor Brian Yothers is from the Department of English at The University of Texas, El Paso, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

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.