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Chapter 6 - Profanation

from Part III - “Kindred with the Mummy”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2024

Lindsey N. Chappell
Affiliation:
Georgia Southern University
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Chapter 6 returns to William Thackeray’s Mediterranean travel writing to show how his humor fails to challenge the dominant heritage discourse in Jerusalem. Although Thackeray derides other Mediterranean sites for inauthenticity, he cannot profane Jerusalem, which means he cannot return it to human (and imperial) use, either by word play or physical contact. Anthony Trollope takes up this problem in his novel The Bertrams, in which he reconceives some places, like Alexandria, for modern use. These sites are wiped of their significance to British heritage discourse as ancient lands and rendered available for modernization. Jerusalem, though, proves too sacred, and thus too integral to British cultural heritage, to be colonized in the same way. Some holy sites thus endure as historical relics while others are rewritten as a “middle” East.

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Temporal Forms and the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean
Writing British Heritage in Ancient Lands
, pp. 196 - 220
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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  • Profanation
  • Lindsey N. Chappell, Georgia Southern University
  • Book: Temporal Forms and the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean
  • Online publication: 09 November 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009469791.012
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  • Profanation
  • Lindsey N. Chappell, Georgia Southern University
  • Book: Temporal Forms and the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean
  • Online publication: 09 November 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009469791.012
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  • Profanation
  • Lindsey N. Chappell, Georgia Southern University
  • Book: Temporal Forms and the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean
  • Online publication: 09 November 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009469791.012
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