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The dream of building Jerusalem in England's 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 Napoleon's failed Mediterranean campaign of 1799, which marked a new era in the


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  • The Holy Land In English Culture 1799-1917 available on January 02 2019 from Indigo for 199.50
  • The Holy Land in English Culture 1799-1917 available on March 07 2016 from Buy for 140.45
  • ISBN bar code 9780199261161 ξ1 registered March 17 2016
  • ISBN bar code 9780199261161 ξ2 registered January 02 2019
  • ISBN bar code 9780199261161 ξ3 registered March 07 2016
  • Product category is The-Holy-Land-in-English-Culture-1799-1917 Eitan-Bar-Yosef Book

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The dream of building Jerusalem in England's 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 Napoleon's failed Mediterranean campaign of 1799, which marked a new era in the British involvement in the land, to Allenby's conquest of Jerusalem in 1917. Bar-Yosef argues that the Protestant tradition of internalizing Biblical vocabulary—"Promised Land," "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 Land itself.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 study joins 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 Said's work: it is only by exploring sources that go beyond the highbrow, the academic, or the official, that we can begin to grasp the limited currency of the orientalist discourse in the


References
    ^ The Holy Land in English Culture 1799-1917: Palestine and the Question of Orientalism (revised Jul 2025)
    ^ (2012). The Holy Land In English Culture 1799-1917 Indigo. (revised Jan 2019)
    ^ The Holy Land in English Culture 1799-1917 Buy. (revised Mar 2016)

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