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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : English

106-272/372 Travel Writing: Zones of the Imagination

Availability:

Not offered in 1997.

Credit Points:

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator:

Peter Steele

Contact:

One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week.

Content:

This subject explores the literature of travel, fictive and factual, with an emphasis on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Assessment:

Written work of not more than 5000 words.

Prescribed Texts:

  • C Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle, Penguin.
  • J W Goethe, Italian Journey, Penguin.
  • R Hakluyt, Voyages and Discoveries, Penguin.
  • J Mandeville, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, Penguin.
  • H Melville, Moby Dick, Penguin.
  • J Raban, Old Glory, Harper-Collins.
  • L Sterne, A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, Penguin.
  • J Swift, Gulliver's Travels, Penguin.
  • Homer, The Odyssey, Norton Critical Edition.
  • S Johnson and J Boswell, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and Journal of a Tour in the Hebrides, Penguin.
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