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The Holy Land in English culture 1799-1917 : Palestine and the question of Orientalism /
The dream of building Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land has become a quintessential part of English identity and culture: but how did this vision shape the Victorian encounter with the actual Jerusalem? Drawing on a wide variety of sources, Eitan Bar-Yosef offers a new cultural his...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
2005.
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| Colección: | Oxford English monographs.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The dream of building Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land has become a quintessential part of English identity and culture: but how did this vision shape the Victorian encounter with the actual Jerusalem? Drawing on a wide variety of sources, Eitan Bar-Yosef offers a new cultural history of the Victorian fascination with Palestine and the role played by popular Protestant culture in shaping English encounters with the Holy Land. |
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| Notas: | Abstract of thesis (Ph. D.)-Oxford University, 2005. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 319 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1423753208 9781423753209 0199261164 9780199261161 0191555576 9780191555572 |