American Palestine: Melville, Twain, and the Holy Land Mania by Hilton Obenzinger

American Palestine: Melville, Twain, and the Holy Land Mania

Hilton Obenzinger

320 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics history literary sociology

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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 va...

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