{"product_id":"american-palestine-melville-twain-and-the-holy-land-mania-9780691009735","title":"American Palestine  Melville Twain and the Holy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCombining literary and historical insights and attention to the context of other American writings about Palestine, this book throws light on the construction of American identity in the nineteenth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"American Palestine is an incisive, well-informed, and consistently engaging book.\"--Robert Milder, Nineteenth-Century Literature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface: Manias and Materialities ix  Acknowledgments xix  PART ONE: Excavating American Palestine  Chapter One Holy Lands and Settler Identities 3  Chapter Two George Sandys: \"Double Travels\" and Colonial Encounters 14  Chapter Three \"Christianography\" and Covenant 24  Chapter Four Reading and Writing Sacred Geography 39  PART Two: \"The Fatal Embrace of the Deity\": Herman Melville's Pilgrimage to Failure in Clarel  Chapter Five \"A Profound Remove\": Annihilation and Covenant 63  Chapter Six \"That Strange Pervert\": The Puritan Zionist 84  Chapter Seven \"The Great Jewish Counterfeit Detector\": Warder Cresson, \"Carnal\" Hermeneutics, and Zion's Body 114  Chapter Eight Ungar \"His Way Eccentric\": The Confederate Cherokee's Map of Palestine 138  PART THREE: The Guilties Abroad: Mark Twain's Comic Appropriation of the Holy Land in Innocents Abroad  Chapter Nine Authority and Authenticity 161  Chapter Ten The Jaffa Colonists and Other Failures 177  Chapter Eleven \"A White Man So Nervous and Uncomfortable and Savage\" 190  Chapter Twelve \"Rejected Gospels\": The Boyhood of Jesus 198  Chapter Thirteen Reverence and Race 216  Chapter Fourteen The \"Cultivated Negro\" and the Curse of Ham 227  Chapter Fifteen Desolating Narrations: Tom Sawyer's Crusade 248  Chapter Sixteen Desolating Narrations: \"Der Jude Mark Twain\" 262  Notes 275  Index 311","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403673149783,"sku":"9780691009735","price":37.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691009735.jpg?v=1730484216","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/american-palestine-melville-twain-and-the-holy-land-mania-9780691009735","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}