Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 316 pages)
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illustrations
ISBN:
9780691216324
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0691216320
Inhalt:
In the 19th century, American tourists, scholars, evangelists, writers and artists flocked to Palestine. Focusing on works by Melville and Twain, this book throws new light on the construction ot American identity in the 19th century
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-309) and index
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Preface: Manias and Materialities -- pt. 1. Excavating American Palestine. -- Ch. 1. Holy Lands and Settler Identities. -- Ch. 2. George Sandys: "Double Travels" and Colonial Encounters. -- Ch. 3. "Christianography" and Covenant. -- Ch. 4. Reading and Writing Sacred Geography -- pt. 2. "The Fatal Embrace of the Deity": Herman Melville's Pilgrimage to Failure in Clarel. -- Ch. 5. "A Profound Remove": Annihilation and Covenant. -- Ch. 6. "That Strange Pervert": The Puritan Zionist. -- Ch. 7. "The Great Jewish Counterfeit Detector": Warder Cresson, "Carnal" Hermeneutics, and Zion's Body. -- Ch. 8. Ungar "His Way Eccentric": The Confederate Cherokee's Map of Palestine -- pt. 3. The Guilties Abroad: Mark Twain's Comic Appropriation of the Holy Land in Innocents Abroad. -- Ch. 9. Authority and Authenticity. -- Ch. 10. The Jaffa Colonists and Other Failures. Ch. 11. "A White Man So Nervous and Uncomfortable and Savage" -- Ch. 12. "Rejected Gospels": The Boyhood of Jesus. -- Ch. 13. Reverence and Race. -- Ch. 14. The "Cultivated Negro" and the Curse of Ham. -- Ch. 15. Desolating Narrations: Tom Sawyer's Crusade. -- Ch. 16. Desolating Narrations: "Der Jude Mark Twain."
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Obenzinger, Hilton American Palestine Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1999 ISBN 0691007284
Sprache:
Englisch
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