Abstract
Abstract: This essay examines the cultural and political framing of Palestine in the work of the liberal English writer, journalist, and politician, James Silk Buckingham. In his Travels in Palestine (1821), Buckingham posits Palestine as an imaginative space where a liberal Briton develops critiques of Biblical literalism and religious pietism, encouraged by an emerging landscape in nineteenth-century Britain that accommodated vigorous radical and dissenting voices. At the turn of the nineteenth century, as this essay shows, debates in Britain about political radicalism and religious orthodoxy shaped the perception of Palestine and its population in the popular genre of travel writing.
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