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\nReadings:
\nCarl Thompson, Travel writing, pp. 9-27 [IVLE]
\nE. H. Carr, What is history, pp1-24 [IVLE]
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\nWeek 2: Fact and Fiction in Travel Writing (20 Jan)
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\nReadings:
\nPercy Adams, Travelers and travel liars, 1660-1880, pp19-43 [IVLE]
\nMary Louise Pratt, Imperial eyes: travel writing and transculturation, pp24-37 [IVLE]
\nAnon, A voyage round the world, in His Majesty's ship the Dolphin: commanded by the Honourable Commodore Byron (1767) [NUS Lib - ECCO]
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\nWeek 3: The Grand Tour (27 Jan)
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\nReadings:
\nMichele Cohen, The Grand Tour: constructing the English gentleman in 18th century France, History of Education, 09/1992, Volume 21, Issue 3, p241-257 [IVLE]
\nKatherine Turner, British Travel Writers in Europe 1750-1800, pp55-74 [IVLE]
\nTobias Smollett, Travels through France and Italy (1778) [NUS Lib - ECCO]
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\nWeek 4: Orientalism (3 Feb)
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\nReadings:
\nEdward Said, Orientalism, pp31-110 [IVLE]
\nAli Behdad, Orientalism Matters, MFS Modern Fiction Studies, 2010, Volume 56, Issue 4, pp709-728 [IVLE]
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\nWeek 5 - 6: The Turk (10 Feb, 17 Feb)
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\nReadings: Wk 5
\nGerald Maclean, Looking East: English writing and the Ottoman Empire before 1800, pp44-61, 174-198 [IVLE]
\nBrandon Beck, From the Rising of the Sun, pp29-48 [IVLE]
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