The Romance of the Holy Land in American Travel Writing, 1790-1876Brian Yothers attempts to map the complex interrelationships among the various strands in U.S. travel writing about the Holy Land through a series of close readings of a wide range of travel narratives. |
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Contents
The Skeptical Piety of Protestant | 19 |
Clorinda Minor Orson Hyde | 43 |
The Skeptical Oriental Romance | 59 |
Mark Twain J Ross Browne | 83 |
The Double Mystery of Place | 109 |
Bibliography | 139 |
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The Romance of the Holy Land in American Travel Writing, 1790–1876 Brian Yothers Limited preview - 2016 |
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| Title | The Romance of the Holy Land in American Travel Writing, 1790-1876 |
| Author | Brian Yothers |
| Publisher | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2007 |
| ISBN | 0754654923, 9780754654926 |
| Length | 147 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / American / General |
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