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 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. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New 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. Table of Contents Introduction: Holy Lands1: Christian walks to Jerusalem: English Protestant culture and the emergence of vernacular Orientalism2: The Land and the books: High Anglo-Palestine Orientalism and its limits3: Popular Palestine: The Holy Land as printed image, spectacle, and commodity4: Eccentric Zion: Victorian culture and the Jewish restoration to Palestine5: Homesick crusaders: Propaganda and troop morale in the Palestine campaign, 1917-18Epilogue: The Holy Places revisited Review Eitan Bar-Yosefs pioneering and theoretically sophisticated monograph is likely to acquire the status of a foundational work...His book provides a fine example of the ways in which literary scholars can enrich our understanding of cultural history. It deserves to find an audience beyond the natural readership of the Oxford English Monographs series in which it appears. English Historical Review ...this absorbing study Contemporary Review ...well-researched and convincing study...makes several significant contributions... The Review of English Studies, Vol. 57, No. 232 Promotional Offers a new cultural history of the English fascination with Palestine in the 19th century Long 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. Review Quote ...this absorbing study Feature Offers a new cultural history of the Victorian fascination with PalestineEmploys a wide range of sources, both high and low, as a way of rethinking the meaning and currency of the Orientalist discourse in the metropolitan centreCombines postcolonial theory with English social history Details ISBN0199261164 Author Eitan Bar-Yosef Short Title HOLY LAND IN ENGLISH CULTURE 1 Language English ISBN-10 0199261164 ISBN-13 9780199261161 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2005 Series Oxford English Monographs Subtitle Palestine and the Question of Orientalism Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom Affiliation Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney DOI 10.1604/9780199261161 UK Release Date 2005-10-27 AU Release Date 2005-10-27 NZ Release Date 2005-10-27 Illustrator Qu Lan Birth 1927 Position Senior Lecturer Qualifications PhD Pages 334 Publisher Oxford University Press Publication Date 2005-10-27 DEWEY 956.94 Illustrations 12 halftones Audience Professional & Vocational Imprint Oxford University Press We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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