ENGL 385 - Early Modern English Travel Writing

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Trinity College

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This course examines seemingly disparate literatures of travel from Early Modern England, including travel writing anthologies, news, trading company or embassy reports, illustrated accounts of adventure, trade and encounter, travel logs, translations, and promotional literature about New World colonial living. Highlighting a crucial but understudied moment in the development of travel writing as a genre -- the period is often labeled with the blanket description "age of discovery" -- this course is bookended by a brief look back at medieval precursors and forward to the 18th century era of the Grand Tour and empire. Authors include John Mandeville, Sir Walter Raleigh, John Smith, Aphra Behn, and Mary Montagu. For English majors, this course satifies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written before 1800, or a course emphasizing cultural context. 1.00 units, Lecture

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1.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.Trincoll.edu

Phone Number:

(860) 297-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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