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Article: The Romance of the Holy Land in American Travel Writing, 1790-1876.(Book review)
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The Romance of the Holy Land in American Travel Writing, 1790-1876, by Brian Yothers. Aldershot Hampshire GB/Burlington VT: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2007. 147 pp. $89.95.
The premise of this book is that nineteenth-century American travel writing about the Holy Land is a malleable but coherent literary tradition. Noting the genre's roots in eighteenth-century tales of Barbary captivity, Yothers devotes most of his energy to describing contrasts and comparisons among motifs and themes in a wide range of nineteenth-century Orientalist writings. He exposes thematic continuities and variations that comprise a web of inter-textual debate carried on by professional ...