American Palestine: Melville, Twain, and the Holy Land ManiaPrinceton University Press, 21 jul 2020 - 320 pagina's In the nineteenth century, American tourists, scholars, evangelists, writers, and artists flocked to Palestine as part of a "Holy Land mania." Many saw America as a New Israel, a modern nation chosen to do God's work on Earth, and produced a rich variety of inspirational art and literature about their travels in the original promised land, which was then part of Ottoman-controlled Palestine. In American Palestine, Hilton Obenzinger explores two "infidel texts" in this tradition: Herman Melville's Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage to the Holy Land (1876) and Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress (1869). As he shows, these works undermined in very different ways conventional assumptions about America's divine mission. |
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... , jeremiads, Sunday school “illuminations,” and missionary journals), travel book, exploration narrative, archaeological and topographical treatise (particularly those seeking “evidences” of CHAPTER Holy Lands and Settler Identities.
... evidences” of biblical prophecies), and even historical romance and poetry. Such a literature, despite its uniquely “American” qualities, springs from the larger library of Western involvement with Palestine available to Americans ...
... evidences” of prophecy. The “evidences” I extract are of how “Palestine” and “Holy Land” constructed “America,” of how the books by Melville and Twain arose from a tradition of complex intertextualities, rhetorical devices, and ...
... evidence especially compelling, particularly when the relationship between Holy Land and New World persists throughout colonization, while the actual intertextualization embodied by Sandys emerges once again with the popular ...
... evidences of “new” worlds—his firsthand accounts of both Virginia and the Levant.10 Sandys's commentaries bred “the familiar Mediterranean topoi of classical literature”11 in order to understand “savagery” on unfamiliar soil. His ...
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