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American Palestine : Melville, Twain, and the Holy Land mania /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Obenzinger, Hilton
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1999.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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."