Eitan Bar-Yosef

The Holy Land in English Culture 1799-1917

Palestine and the Question of Orientalism

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Produktbeschreibung

The dream of building Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land has become a quintessential part of English identity and culture: but how did this vision shape the Victorian encounter with the actual Jerusalem? Drawing on a wide variety of sources, Eitan Bar-Yosef offers a new cultural history of the Victorian fascination with Palestine and the role played by popular Protestant culture in shaping English encounters with the Holy Land.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 150mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 542g
• ISBN-13: 9780199261161
• ISBN-10: 0199261164
• Artikelnr.: 21705030

Autorenporträt

Eitan Bar-Yosef is a Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Holy Lands
* 1: Christian walks to Jerusalem: English Protestant culture and the
emergence of vernacular Orientalism
* 2: The Land and the books: High Anglo-Palestine Orientalism and its
limits
* 3: Popular Palestine: The Holy Land as printed image, spectacle, and
commodity
* 4: Eccentric Zion: Victorian culture and the Jewish restoration to
Palestine
* 5: Homesick crusaders: Propaganda and troop morale in the Palestine
campaign, 1917-18
* Epilogue: The Holy Places revisited