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 106-048 Travel Writing: Zones of the Imagination

Note

Formerly available as 106-272/372. Students who have completed 106-272/372 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

1

Coordinator

Peter Steele

Prerequisites

Usually 25 points of first year English, see Prerequisites, or first year European studies, see Prerequisites.

Semester

2 (view timetable)

Contact

A 1-hour lecture and nine 2-hour tutorials scheduled across the semester

Subject Description

This subject explores the literature of travel, fictive and factual, with an emphasis on the 18th and 19th centuries. Students will encounter a variety of historical and imaginative texts which draw attention to the centrality of modes of travel to our recent colonial and global history. Students who complete this subject successfully should 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

Class participation, and written work totalling 4000 words.

Prescribed Texts
  • C Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle. Penguin.
  • R Hakluyt, Voyages and Discoveries. Penguin.
  • J Mandeville, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville. Penguin.
  • H Melville, Moby Dick. Penguin.
  • J Swift, Gulliver's Travels. Penguin.
  • Homer trans. R Fagles, The Odyssey. Penguin.
  • S Johnson & J Boswell, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and Journal of a Tour in the Hebrides. Penguin.
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