The Holy Land in English Culture 1799-1917: Palestine and the Question of Orient

Description: The Holy Land in English Culture 1799-1917 by Eitan Bar-Yosef Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description The dream of building Jerusalem in Englands green and pleasant land is a quintessential part of English identity and culture. Drawing on a variety of sources, this book offers a cultural history of the Victorian fascination with Palestine and the role played by popular Protestant culture in shaping English encounters with the Holy Land. Publisher Description The dream of building Jerusalem in Englands green and pleasant land has long been a quintessential part of English identity and culture: but how did this vision shape the Victorian encounter with the actual Jerusalem in the Middle East? The Holy Land in English Culture 1799-1917 offers a new cultural history of the English fascination with Palestine in the long nineteenth century, from Napoleons failed Mediterraneancampaign of 1799, which marked a new era in the British involvement in the land, to Allenbys conquest of Jerusalem in 1917. Bar-Yosef argues that the Protestant tradition of internalizing Biblical vocabulary - PromisedLand, Chosen People, Jerusalem - and applying it to different, often contesting, visions of England and Englishness evoked a unique sense of ambivalence towards the imperial desire to possess the Holy Land. Popular religious culture, in other words, was crucial to the construction of the orientalist discourse: so crucial, in fact, that metaphorical appropriations of the Holy Land played a much more dominant role in the English cultural imagination than the actual Holy Landitself. As it traces the diversity of Holy Lands in the Victorian cultural landscape - literal and metaphorical, secular and sacred, radical and patriotic, visual and textual - this studyjoins the ongoing debate about the dissemination of imperial ideology. Drawing on a wide array of sources, from Sunday-school textbooks and popular exhibitions to penny magazines and soldiers diaries, the book demonstrates how the Orientalist discourse functions - or, to be more precise, malfunctions - in those popular cultural spheres that are so markedly absent from Edward Saids work: it is only by exploring sources that go beyond the highbrow, the academic, or the official, that we canbegin to grasp the limited currency of the orientalist discourse in the metropolitan centre, and the different meanings it could hold for different social groups. As such, The Holy Land in English Culture1799-1917 provides a significant contribution to both postcolonial studies and English social history. Author Biography Eitan Bar-Yosef is a Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Details ISBN 0199261164 ISBN-13 9780199261161 Title The Holy Land in English Culture 1799-1917 Author Eitan Bar-Yosef Format Hardcover Year 2005 Pages 334 Publisher Oxford University Press GE_Item_ID:137017201; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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