Encounters of a Third Kind: Mark Twain, William C. Prime and Protestant American Holy Land Narratives
William C. Prime’s Tent Life in the Holy Land (1857) is mostly remembered now as the target of parody in The Innocents Abroad (1869), where, eager to promote his own “honest” and “impartial” account of Palestine, Mark Twain mocked the maudlin style of his old-fashioned predecessor. Readers since too...
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| Language: | English |
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Fondazione Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea CDEC
2013-12-01
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| Series: | Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History |
| Online Access: | http://www.quest-cdecjournal.it/focus.php?id=342 |