The Romance of the Holy Land in American Travel Writing, 1790-1876Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2007 - 147 pages Brian 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. |
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 |
The Romance of the Holy Land in American Travel Writing, 1790–1876 Brian Yothers Limited preview - 2016 |
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