| Description |
xxi, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-309) and index. |
| Contents |
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." |
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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Clarel.
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Palestine -- Foreign public opinion, American -- History -- 19th century.
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American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Americans -- Palestine -- History -- 19th century.
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Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature.
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Public opinion -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Travel -- Palestine.
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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Travel -- Palestine.
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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Innocents abroad.
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Palestine -- In literature.
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| ISBN |
0691007284 alkaline paper |
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9780691007281 alkaline paper |
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0691009732 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780691009735 paperback alkaline paper |
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