Land of Pure Delight
Dinah Birch: Anglicising the Holy Land, 20 April 2006
The Holy Land in English Culture 1799-1917: Palestine and the Question of Orientalism
by Eitan Bar-Yosef.
Oxford, 319 pp., £50, October 2005,0 19 926116 4 Show More
by Eitan Bar-Yosef.
Oxford, 319 pp., £50, October 2005,
“... suspicious. In Apocalypse (1931), his final and most vehement repudiation of Christianity, D.H. Lawrence mocked what he had come to see as the complacencies of dissent: With nonconformity, the chapel people took over to themselves the Jewish idea of the chosen people. They were ‘it’, the elect, or the ‘saved’. And they took over the Jewish idea of ... ”