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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bar-Yosef, Eitan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2005.
Colección:Oxford English monographs.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Holy Lands; 1. Christian Walks to Jerusalem: English Protestant Culture and the Emergence of Vernacular Orientalism; 2. The Land and the Books: High Anglo-Palestine Orientalism and its Limits; 3. Popular Palestine: The Holy Land as Printed Image, Spectacle, and Commodity; 4. Eccentric Zion: Victorian Culture and the Jewish Restoration to Palestine; 5. Homesick Crusaders: Propaganda and Troop Morale in the Palestine Campaign, 1917; Epilogue: The Holy Places Revisited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O
  • PQ; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z