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

by Hilton Obenzinger

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691009732
• ISBN13: 9780691009735
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"