106-048 Travel Writing: Zones of the Imagination

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

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

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; and able to compare and contrast individual works.