TY - JOUR
T1 - Palestine as Europe's Future
T2 - Antiquity as Contemporaneity in Volney's Travels , Considerations , and The Ruins
AU - Beenstock, Zoe
PY - 2023/6
Y1 - 2023/6
N2 - European Romanticism often represents Palestine in ageographical terms. Through an analysis of Volney’s writings on the East, this article traces Palestinian ageography to religiously-inflected discourses that identify Palestine as Europe’s future. Volney juxtaposes antiquarianism, realist travelogue, and science fictional literary modes to represent Palestine’s multiple spiritual pasts, its contemporaneity with Europe, and its prophetic anticipation of revolution. His account of Palestine shapes Romanticism and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as arguably the first science fiction novel, demonstrating the importance of religious discourses for Romantic European engagements with Palestine.
AB - European Romanticism often represents Palestine in ageographical terms. Through an analysis of Volney’s writings on the East, this article traces Palestinian ageography to religiously-inflected discourses that identify Palestine as Europe’s future. Volney juxtaposes antiquarianism, realist travelogue, and science fictional literary modes to represent Palestine’s multiple spiritual pasts, its contemporaneity with Europe, and its prophetic anticipation of revolution. His account of Palestine shapes Romanticism and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as arguably the first science fiction novel, demonstrating the importance of religious discourses for Romantic European engagements with Palestine.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85175487984&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1353/srm.2023.a903036
DO - 10.1353/srm.2023.a903036
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85175487984
SN - 0039-3762
VL - 62
SP - 269
EP - 282
JO - Studies in Romanticism
JF - Studies in Romanticism
IS - 2
ER -