Description

British travellers, from the Grand Tour to the advent of mass tourism.
 
In 18^th- and 19^th-century Britain, travel acquired a defining cultural significance. From the elite tradition of the Grand Tour to the early days of mass tourism, spearheaded by Thomas Cook’s first package holidays, a multiplicity of travel practices developed. These were grounded in the belief that the discovery of new places, at home and abroad, through the process of journeying was essential not only to the construction of knowledge but also to personal development. In this seminar, we will discuss a range of texts and visual representations that reflect these diverse, interconnected practices – including aesthetic, scientific, and expansionist modes of travel - as well as the varied identities of the travellers.  

Students will be expected to improve their analytical skills by studying and commenting on a selection of primary sources. They will also be encouraged to become familiar with scholarly publications, through regular reading assignments.

Compétences visées

The objectives of the course are: 
•    To improve the students’ understanding of a foundational moment in the history of the English-speaking world
•    To allow the students to become acquainted with important historiographic developments, and changing approaches to the question of British imperialism.
•    To continue developing methods of analysis when working with both visual and textual primary sources.

Modalités d'organisation et de suivi

Moodle link: https://moodle.unistra.fr/course/view.php?id=38413
(the page will be regularly updated)

Disciplines

• Études anglophones

Informations complémentaires

Hélène Ibata (hibata@unistra.fr)

Bibliographie

Bibliographie, lectures recommandées
Bohls, Elizabeth A. and Ian Duncan. Travel Writing 1700-1830. An Anthology. Oxford World’s Classics, 2005.

Black, Jeremy. The British Abroad: The Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century. Bridgend: Alan Sutton and Sutton, 1992.

Buzzard, James. The Beaten Track: European Tourism, Literature, and the Ways to Culture, 1800-1918. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.

Leask, Nigel. Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing 1770-1840. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Thompson, Carl. Travel Writing. London: Routledge, 2011.

Contacts

Responsable(s) de l'enseignement

• Hélène Ibata

MCC

Les épreuves indiquées respectent et appliquent le règlement de votre formation, disponible dans l'onglet Documents de la description de la formation.

Régime d'évaluation

ECI (Évaluation continue intégrale)

Évaluation initiale / Session principale - Épreuves