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HS Of Tourists and Travellers: Travel Writing since the 18th Century- Dozent/in
- Dr. Susan Brähler
- Angaben
- Seminar/Hauptseminar
Rein Präsenz
2 SWS
Gender und Diversität, Zentrum für Mittelalterstudien, Erweiterungsbereich, Unterrichtssprache Englisch
Zeit und Ort: Do 14:00 - 16:00, U9/01.11
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- 1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
MA English and American Studies:
Master Module English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Profile Module English and American Literature I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Consolidation Module English and American Literature I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.09.2023, 10:00 – 31.10.2023, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
Open for Consolidation Module Literature
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature
- Inhalt
- Travel writing is a genre which has notoriously been hard to define. So a class on travel writing will necessarily have to begin with gauging the generic boundaries and conventions of a fuzzy body of writing. We need to address the problem of the authority and reliability of the travel writer, of the veracity of their documentary, autobiographical or fictional texts, and the oftentimes fraught strategies of representing (read: self-aggrandising) the self and portraying the ‘Other’ (the colonial gaze!). How is travel writing enmeshed in political agendas? What are the implications of gender, sexual and ethnic identity for the (fictional) travel experience?
This class will trace the medieval and early modern origins of travel writing before delving into a multitude of 18th-century philosophical, documentary and fictional texts on human mobility. We will discuss expeditions as well as sentimental journeys, picaresque and picturesque travelling and contrast travels around the globe with journeys inside the British Isles as well as the differences in journeys undertaken by men and women. In the process, we will reconstruct the ‘inward turn’ in travel writing of the mid-18th century as well as the democratisation of tourism with its transition from individual travelling (the Grand Tour!) to the mass tourism of the mid-19th century. In a last section, this class will shift the focus to contemporary queer and postcolonial re-visions and re-writings of the travel experiences of previous centuries and look at the intersections of contemporary travel and nature writing.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Preliminary reading list:
(Excerpts of the following texts will be made available on the VC.)
Joseph Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy (1705)
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels (1726; fourth voyage only)
Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey (1768)
James Boswell, London Journal (publ. posth. 1950) and Boswell on the Grand Tour (1764-66)
Journals of Captain James Cook (1768-80)
Janet Schaw, Journal of a Lady of Quality (1774-6)
Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796)
William Combe, The Tour of Dr Syntax in Search of the Picturesque: A Poem (1812)
Anon, The Woman of Colour: A Tale (1808)
Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle (1839)
Henry Morton Stanley, Through the Dark Continent (1878)
Mary Kingsley, Travels in West Africa (1897)
Caryl Phillips, The European Tribe (1987)
Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place (1988)
Roger Deakin, Waterlog (1999)
Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot (2012)
Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue (2017)
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Title:
- HS Of Tourists and Travellers: Travel Writing since the 18th Century
- Credits: 8
- Prerequisites
- 1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
MA English and American Studies:
Master Module English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Profile Module English and American Literature I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Consolidation Module English and American Literature I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.09.2023, 10:00 – 31.10.2023, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
Open for Consolidation Module Literature
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature
- Contents
- Travel writing is a genre which has notoriously been hard to define. So a class on travel writing will necessarily have to begin with gauging the generic boundaries and conventions of a fuzzy body of writing. We need to address the problem of the authority and reliability of the travel writer, of the veracity of their documentary, autobiographical or fictional texts, and the oftentimes fraught strategies of representing (read: self-aggrandising) the self and portraying the ‘Other’ (the colonial gaze!). How is travel writing enmeshed in political agendas? What are the implications of gender, sexual and ethnic identity for the (fictional) travel experience?
This class will trace the medieval and early modern origins of travel writing before delving into a multitude of 18th-century philosophical, documentary and fictional texts on human mobility. We will discuss expeditions as well as sentimental journeys, picaresque and picturesque travelling and contrast travels around the globe with journeys inside the British Isles as well as the differences in journeys undertaken by men and women. In the process, we will reconstruct the ‘inward turn’ in travel writing of the mid-18th century as well as the democratisation of tourism with its transition from individual travelling (the Grand Tour!) to the mass tourism of the mid-19th century. In a last section, this class will shift the focus to contemporary queer and postcolonial re-visions and re-writings of the travel experiences of previous centuries and look at the intersections of contemporary travel and nature writing.
- Literature
- Preliminary reading list:
(Excerpts of the following texts will be made available on the VC.)
Joseph Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy (1705)
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels (1726; fourth voyage only)
Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey (1768)
James Boswell, London Journal (publ. posth. 1950) and Boswell on the Grand Tour (1764-66)
Journals of Captain James Cook (1768-80)
Janet Schaw, Journal of a Lady of Quality (1774-6)
Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796)
William Combe, The Tour of Dr Syntax in Search of the Picturesque: A Poem (1812)
Anon, The Woman of Colour: A Tale (1808)
Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle (1839)
Henry Morton Stanley, Through the Dark Continent (1878)
Mary Kingsley, Travels in West Africa (1897)
Caryl Phillips, The European Tribe (1987)
Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place (1988)
Roger Deakin, Waterlog (1999)
Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot (2012)
Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue (2017)
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 15
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Englische Literaturwissenschaft
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