Imperial Eyes: Eighteenth Century Travel Writing - Einzelansicht

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Veranstaltungsart	Seminar	Veranstaltungsnummer
SWS	2	Semester	SoSe 2018
Einrichtung	Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik	Sprache	englisch
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Belegungsfrist	03.04.2018 - 10.05.2018 Belegung über PULS

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		Tag	Zeit	Rhythmus	Dauer	Raum	Lehrperson	Ausfall-/Ausweichtermine	Max. Teilnehmer/-innen
	Seminar	Di	10:00 bis 12:00	wöchentlich	10.04.2018 bis 17.07.2018	1.19.0.31			40

Kommentar	Please follow the "comment" link above for more information on comments, course readings, course requirements and grading. In eighteenth-century Britain, the hybrid genre of the travel narrative became one of the most popular and respected forms of writing for a public that was eager to consume accounts of the geography and customs of foreign lands. With the exception of the novel, the number of books published on foreign travel surpassed all other genres. Yet many critics have suggested that these narratives justified British imperialism via an emphasis on British cultural superiority over and against an exoticised and debased cultural otherness, thus consolidating ideas of Britishness at the expense of non-British others. Using Said’s seminal account of othering in _Orientalism_, students will examine three travel narratives from the eighteenth century, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Turkish Embassy Letters (1710-1711), Samuel Johnson’s _Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland_ (1775), and Dean Mahomet’s _Travels_ (1794), in order to interrogate the ways in which these representations of foreign lands and cultures perpetuate and/or contest models of British superiority as a means of establishing imperial domination.
Literatur	SET TEXTS. Students are expected to acquire the following texts: Johnson, Samuel. _A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland_. Penguin, 1984. Mahomet, Dean. _The Travels of Dean Mahomet_. University of California Press, 1997. Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. _The Turkish Embassy Letters_. Virago, 1993. Supplementary readings will be made available on Moodle prior to the beginning of semester.

Kommentar

Please follow the "comment" link above for more information on comments, course readings, course requirements and grading.

In eighteenth-century Britain, the hybrid genre of the travel narrative became one of the most popular and respected forms of writing for a public that was eager to consume accounts of the geography and customs of foreign lands. With the exception of the novel, the number of books published on foreign travel surpassed all other genres. Yet many critics have suggested that these narratives justified British imperialism via an emphasis on British cultural superiority over and against an exoticised and debased cultural otherness, thus consolidating ideas of Britishness at the expense of non-British others. Using Said’s seminal account of othering in _Orientalism_, students will examine three travel narratives from the eighteenth century, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Turkish Embassy Letters (1710-1711), Samuel Johnson’s _Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland_ (1775), and Dean Mahomet’s _Travels_ (1794), in order to interrogate the ways in which these representations of foreign lands and cultures perpetuate and/or contest models of British superiority as a means of establishing imperial domination.

Literatur

SET TEXTS.
Students are expected to acquire the following texts:

Johnson, Samuel. _A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland_. Penguin, 1984.
Mahomet, Dean. _The Travels of Dean Mahomet_. University of California Press, 1997.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. _The Turkish Embassy Letters_. Virago, 1993.

Supplementary readings will be made available on Moodle prior to the beginning of semester.

Strukturbaum

Keine Einordnung ins Vorlesungsverzeichnis vorhanden. Veranstaltung ist aus dem Semester SoSe 2018 , Aktuelles Semester: SoSe 2024