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Abstract
This thesis offers a study of the travel accounts written by British and American pilgrims and travellers to Jerusalem in a period that stretches from 1800 to 1917. The nineteenth century witnessed a proliferation in pilgrimages and visits to Jerusalem; hundreds of British and American travellers headed to Jerusalem and their experiences were recorded in their post-pilgrimage published works. Against a background of Zionist and imperialist sweeping ideologies and practices in the nineteenth century, these travellers/pilgrims saw Jerusalem through the lense of one specific vision – the vision of Zion or the Jewish ”New Jerusalem”. The thesis, in five chapters together with an introduction and a conclusion, offers a post-colonial critique of the representation of Jerusalem in a selected number of British and American nineteenth-century travel accounts.