Using journey as a metaphor, this course will focus on literature dealing with travel and examine nationalism, identity, economy and politics.
The objective of this course is to focus on English-language women writers from the nineteenth and twentieth century. Whatever the definition we decide to take for granted, there are two terms in the phrase travel writing which might be re-worded as writing about travel. Carl Thompson in his Travel Writing (2011), suggests, “To travel is to make a journey, a movement through space. Possibly this journey is epic in scale, taking the traveller to the other side of the world or across a continent, or up a mountain.” This course will explore how and why people travel and how all these affect their persons, culture and broader perspective.