Obenzinger, Hilton – American Palestine Melville, Twain, and the Holy Land Mania – Princeton University Press (2020)
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Name: Obenzinger, Hilton – American Palestine Melville, Twain, and the Holy Land Mania – Princeton University Press (2020)
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Title: American Palestine
Author: Hilton Obenzinger
Language: English
Year: 1999
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780851709499
Total pages: 278 str.
Description:
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.
In the darkly philosophical Clarel, Melville found echoes of Palestine’s apparent desolation and ruin in his own spiritual doubts and in America’s materialism and corruption. Twain’s satiric travelogue, by…
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