Literature 3032 - Empire,Sexuality,and the Making of Romantic Travel

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Bard College

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This course begins with the study of 1768, the year that Captain Cook set sail for Tahiti, New Zealand, and Australia. The course ends with the study of 1833, the year Britain moved to ban colonial slavery. Between these two dates, a major conceptual shift occurred in how Britons looked at themselves and the world. Students examine the complex relationship between the traditions of literary travel, political journalism, and imperial exploration during the era that saw the rise of Britain as the world's preeminent imperial power. Texts include radical poet Helen Maria Williams's eyewitness account of the French Revolution, Lord Byron's Don Juan, Wordsworth's Prelude, Alexander von Humboldt's Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent, Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey, and Robert Southey's The Curse of Kehama.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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