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'Desert Of The Blest': Poe's Anti-Representational Invocations Of The Near East, Brian Yothers
'Desert Of The Blest': Poe's Anti-Representational Invocations Of The Near East, Brian Yothers
Brian Yothers
Poe's poetry and fiction are full of cultural and religious references to the Near East. This essay suggests that Poe's invocations of the Near East are part of a deliberately anti-representational strategy for dealing with cultural difference that constitutes part of Poe's understanding of one of his most central concepts, the 'arabesque'. This anti-representational strategy is built on Poe's sympathetic reading of texts associated with the Near East, Islam, and Arab and Persian cultures.
Poe's Poetry Of The Exotic, Brian Yothers
Poe's Poetry Of The Exotic, Brian Yothers
Brian Yothers
This essay examines Edgar Allan Poe's poetry in relation to popular nineteenth-century American travel writing. The link takes you to a description of the book on the publisher's website.
Crack'd Archangel: Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici, The Bible, And Religious Difference In Melville's Fiction And Poetry, Brian Yothers
Crack'd Archangel: Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici, The Bible, And Religious Difference In Melville's Fiction And Poetry, Brian Yothers
Brian Yothers
Abstract for December 28, 2009 MLA Paper published in March 2010 Leviathan
Melville And Religious Experience, Brian Yothers
Melville And Religious Experience, Brian Yothers
Brian Yothers
Abstract for Melville Society panel at ALA 2010 on Melville and Religious Experience (I was the organizer and chair) published in October 2010 Leviathan
Introduction: South Asia And The Americas, Brian Yothers, Pramod Nayar
Introduction: South Asia And The Americas, Brian Yothers, Pramod Nayar
Brian Yothers
No abstract provided.
Facing East, Facing West: Mark Twain's Following The Equator And Pandita Ramabai's The Peoples Of The United States, Brian Yothers
Facing East, Facing West: Mark Twain's Following The Equator And Pandita Ramabai's The Peoples Of The United States, Brian Yothers
Brian Yothers
Mark Twain's Following the Equator (1897), a narrative of a journey to the South Pacific, Australia, South Asia, and South Africa, has occupied a small but significant space in the consideration of Twain's wider career as both a travel writer and social critic. Twain's work has not, however, been considered in conjunction with the works of later nineteenth-century South Asian travelers in North America. The present article puts Twain's discussion of India and Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka) in dialogue with Indian scholar and women's rights activist Pandita Ramabai's 1889 travelogue The Peoples of the United States.
American Missionaries And Gender Politics In South Asia: Mark Twain's Following The Equator And Harriet Winlsow's Memoir, Brian Yothers
American Missionaries And Gender Politics In South Asia: Mark Twain's Following The Equator And Harriet Winlsow's Memoir, Brian Yothers
Brian Yothers
Abstract published in South Asian Review 29.4 (2008): 68.
Reader Response And The Interpretation Of "Hop-Frog," "How To Write A Blackwood Article," And "The Tell-Tale Heart", Brian Yothers
Reader Response And The Interpretation Of "Hop-Frog," "How To Write A Blackwood Article," And "The Tell-Tale Heart", Brian Yothers
Brian Yothers
This essay discusses ways in which reader response can enrich the teaching of Poe's short fiction.
Review Of Timothy Marr, The Cultural Roots Of American Islamicism, Brian Yothers
Review Of Timothy Marr, The Cultural Roots Of American Islamicism, Brian Yothers
Brian Yothers
The link will allow you to view a PDF of this review if you have an institutional subscription to Leviathan.
The Romance Of The Holy Land In American Travel Writing, 1790-1876, Brian Yothers
The Romance Of The Holy Land In American Travel Writing, 1790-1876, Brian Yothers
Brian Yothers
This book is the first to engage with the full range of American travel writing about nineteenth-century Ottoman Palestine, and the first to acknowledge the influence of the late-eighteenth-century Barbary captivity narrative on nineteenth-century travel writing about the Middle East. Brian Yothers argues that American travel writing about the Holy Land forms a coherent, if greatly varied, tradition, which can only be fully understood when works by major writers such as Twain and Melville are studied alongside missionary accounts, captivity narratives, chronicles of religious pilgrimages, and travel writing in the genteel tradition. Yothers also examines works by lesser-known authors such …