| CODE | ENG2092 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Travel Writing | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 2 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | English | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit seeks to provide an introduction to travel writing and its importance in English letters and contemporary culture. The study-unit focuses on various aspects of travel writing and travellers’ descriptions of art and landscape and strategies of description and commentary as to the encounter with the foreign. It also explores Romantic notions of travel as personal adventure and the crossing of boundaries. The first part of the study-unit will review the Grand Tour, which reached its apogee in the late eighteenth century and during the Romantic period. The second part will look at new approaches to travel in the nineteenth century, with particular focus on American and British travellers in Italy, and the travel writing of Henry James. Texts for detailed study include Germaine de Staël, 'Corinne, or Italy' (1807); and Henry James, 'Italian Hours' (1909). Supplementary readings: - Buzard, James, The Beaten Track: European Tourism, Literature and the Ways to ‘Culture’, 1800-1918 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993). - Chapman, Alison and Jane Stabler, Unfolding the South: Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers and Artists in Italy (Manchester University Press: 2003). - Pemble, John, The Mediterranean Passion: Victorians and Edwardians in the South (Oxford University Press, 1987). - Tanner, Tony, Venice Desired (Blackwell, 1992). |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Aaron Aquilina Petra Caruana Dingli |
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