106-272 Travel Writing: Zones of the Imagination

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Available as 106-372 at 3rd-year level.

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Subject Description

This subject explores the literature of travel, fictive and factual, with an emphasis on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Students who complete this subject successfully will be: familiar with a number of key works of travel writing; able to identify characteristic elements in these; able to understand analogies between literal and mental travel; able to compare and contrast individual works.

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.