Travel and Transgressions in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century English Literature Syllabus

Transcription

1 1 Dr. Nadia Butt Travel and Transgressions in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century English Literature Syllabus Date Week 1 July 23 Session Introduction: Travel and Literature Brainstorming Class Organization The Poetics and Politics of Travel: an Overview (2006) by Carmen ANDRAŞ July 24 Theory and Definition of Travel I Notes on Travel and Theory (1998) by James Clifford Week08_Nov4_JamesClifford.pdf Ch. 2 Defining Travel: On the Travel Book, Travel Writing and Terminology by Jan Borm in Perspectives on Travel Writing (2004). Edited by Glenn Hooper and Tim Young. Voyages and Journeys: Modern Women Travellers I The Journey to Panama (1861) by Anthony Trollope (Short Story) in Tales of All Countries Series One and Two July 25 Theory and Definition of Travel II Ch. 1 Traveling Cultures by James Clifford in Routes, Travel in Context Ch. 2 Defining the Genre and Ch. 3 Travel Writing Through the Ages: An Overview in Travel Writing: The New Critical Idiom (2011) by Carl Thompson Voyages and Journeys: Modern Women Travellers 1 An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids (1859) by Anthony Trollope (Short Story) in Tales of All Countries Series One and Two

2 2 July 26 Voyages and Journeys: Modern Women Travellers 1 Daisy Miller (1878) by Henry James (Novella) Week 2 30 July The Colonists in Africa : The Adventurous Traveller I King Solomon's Mines (1885) by Sir H. Rider Haggard (Novel) 31 July The Colonists in Africa : The Ambivalent Traveller II Heart of Darkness (1899) by Joseph Conrad (Novella) 1 August Strange Journeys : The Dark Traveller Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker (Epistolary Gothic Novel) Excerpts Revision, preparation for mid-term exam 2 August Midterm-Exam Week 3 6 August The British in Persia: The Sentimental Traveller Behind an Eastern Veil (1894) by James Willis (Bildungsroman) 7 August The British in India: The Curious Traveller I Kim (1900) by Rudyard Kipling (Novel) 8 August The British in India: The Curious Traveller I The Man Who Would be King and Other Stories (1895) by Rudyard Kipling 9 August The British in India: The Curious Traveller II A Passage to India (1924) by E. M. Forster (Novel) Feedback on mid-term exam

3 3 Week 4 13 August The British in India: The Curious Traveller II A Passage to India (1924) by E. M. Forster (Novel) 14 August Between India and Britain: The Time Traveller Heat and Dust (1971) by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Novel) 15 August Wrap-up revision exam preparation 16 August Final Exam Course organization Students are kindly asked to buy the following books or simply download free ebooks made available by Project Gutenberg: The Journey to Panama (1861) by Anthony Trollope (Short Story) An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids (1859) by Anthony Trollope (Short Story) Daisy Miller (1878) by Henry James (Novella) King Solomon's Mines (1885) by Sir H. Rider Haggard (Adventure Novel) Heart of Darkness (1899) by Joseph Conrad (Fictional Travelogue) Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker (Gothic Epistolary Novel) Behind an Eastern Veil (1894) by James Willis (Bildungsroman) Kim (1900) by Rudyard Kipling (Novel) The Man Who Would be King and Other Stories (1895) by Rudyard Kipling A Passage to India (1924) by E. M. Forster (Novel) Heat and Dust (1971) by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Novel) Selected chapters from secondary sources for this course, having been downloaded from the internet, are put into the class-pack. Further information on class organization and materials will be given on our first meeting on 23 of July 2018.

4 4 Abstract Travel literature or travel writing is currently a prolific, dynamic and socially important genre. Profoundly shaped by legacies of the colonial era, when travel writing was a central medium for the circulation of ideas and attitudes around the world, the form has recently burgeoned and undergone significant reinvention in response to postcolonialism and globalisation. There is a rigorous debate about the change in travel writing as it is increasingly considered to be a response to modern, post- or neo-colonial era. Also, there is a discussion on travel literature as a vital medium of cross-cultural contact and exchange in our increasingly globalised world with an emphasis on travelling, touring or mobile cultures. Yet, there is not sufficient discussion about addressing the theory, theme and practice of travel in different literary genres, especially the genre of novel, as a form of transgression as travel involves the experience of voyaging out, to use a phrase from Virginia Woolf. This voyaging out, indeed, involves several forms of transgressions not only geographical, territorial or cultural but also emotional, personal, familial, linguistic, political, economic, religious, and moral. Indeed, these transgressions make the traveller undergo self-discovery and self-knowledge as emerged from corroborating or clashing of cultures. This course examines the representation of travel and transgressions in English literature from nineteenth-century colonial times to the twentieth-century post imperial era. It will give participants a thorough grounding in both the theory of travel and the theme of travel in English literature. Attendees will be introduced to the key debates associated with different genres and the principal methodologies and modes of scholarly analysis. Topics to be explored will include travel and gender, travel and modernity, travel and colonial exploitation as well as violence, travel and migration, travel as transforming or reinventing the self, travel and orientalism, travel and changing cultural stereotypes, travel as self-knowledge, travel as discovery and exploration vis-à-vis travel as a life-changing experience, travel as (mis)adventure, travel and hybridity, and cultures of travel. By drawing upon the theories, concepts and interpretation of travel by James Clifford and Ian Thompson in relation to different forms of transgressions, the course focuses on representative works of literature which reveal the experience of travel from various perspectives. In order to deeply examine the phenomena of travel, special attention will be paid to the emergence of cultural encounters, clash and overlapping in heterogeneous countries and continents as surfaced in the realms of fiction rooted in colonial as well as post - colonial settings. Since travel is argued to be inextricably intertwined with the idea of cultural and individual change, the course aims to interpret the concept of travel with reference to the categories of travellers and their motifs in the realms of literature. By critically analysing the character of the traveller in a foreign culture and location and the impact of travel on his or her imagination and perception of the world, the course also seeks to underline the significance of travel in comprehending other cultures in relation to the traveling self as represented within the frames of literature. By the end of this course, students are able to develop insight not only into the types of

5 5 travellers and their development in a plotline but the different dimensions of travel in the field of English literature. Lastly, they are able to trace historical developments in 19 th and 20 th century England and its colonies through the metaphors of travel in selected genres. Travel and Literature - Key Reading: 1. Arata, Stephen. Fictions of loss in the Victorian fin de siècle. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, Chapter five, The Occidental Tourist: Stoker and Reverse Colonization, Adams, Percy. Travel Literature through the Ages: An Anthology. New York: Garland Publishing, Adams, Percy. Travel Literature and the Evolution of the Novel. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky, Adler, Judith. Travel as Performed Art. American Journal of Sociology. Vol 94. No 6. May Allen, Charles. Kipling Sahib: India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling. London: Abacus, Brantlinger, Patrick. Rule of Darkness : British Literature and Imperialism, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, Bauer, Helen Pike. Rudyard Kipling: A Study of the Short Fiction. New York: Twayne, Bal, Mieke. Travelling Concepts in the Humanities: A Rough Guide. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, Behdad, Ali. Belated Travelers: Orientalism in the Age of Colonial Dissolution. London: Duke University Press, Boobani, Farzad. Orientalist Imaginings: Representations of Persia in Nineteenth- Century English Literature. Trier: Trier Publication, Uncovering Persia: C. J. Wills' Travel Accounts and Behind an Eastern Veil, Burden, Robert. Travel, Modernism and Modernity. New York: Routledge, Buzzard, James. Trollope and Travel. The Cambridge Companion to Anthony Trollope. Edited by Carolyn Dever and Lisa Niles. New York: Cambridge University Press, Clifford, James. The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

6 6 14. Clifford, James. Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, de Certeau, Michel. The Practice of Everyday Life. California: University of California Press, Life.pdf 16. Franey, Laura E. Victorian Travel Writing and Imperial Violence : British Writing on Africa, London: Palgrave, Fussel, Paul. Abroad : British Literary Traveling between the Wars. New York: Oxford University Press, Greenblatt, Stephen. Cultural Mobility: A Manifesto. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Holland, Patrick and Graham Huggan. Tourists with Typewriters: Critical Reflections on Contemporary Travel Writing. Michigan: University of Michigan Press, Kaplan, Caren. Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement Kapuscinski, Ryszard. Travels with Herodotus. 2004; Translated from the Polish by Klara Glowczewska. New York. Alfred Knopf, Leeds, Eric J. The Mind of the Traveller: From Gilgamesh to Global Tourism. New York: Basic Books, Lipski, Jakub. Ed. Travel and Identity: Studies in Literature, Culture and Language. Heidelberg: Springer Nature, Logan, Mawuena Kossi. Narrating Africa: George Henty and the Fiction of Empire. London and New York: Garland Publishing, Chapter 6 Henty's Literary Compatriots: Rider Haggard and Joseph Conrad, Mills, Sara. Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism. London: Routledge, Moretti, Franco. Atlas of the European Novel. London: Verso, Niles, Lisa. Trollope s Shorter Fiction. The Cambridge Companion to Anthony Trollope. Edited by Carolyn Dever and Lisa Niles. New York: Cambridge University Press, Porter, Dennis. Haunted Journeys: Desire and Transgression in European Travel Writing. Oxford. Princeton University Press, 1990.

7 7 29. Pratt, Mary Louise. Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation. London: Routledge, Robertson, George. Travellers' Tales: Narratives of Home and Displacement. London: Routledge, Said, Edward. Traveling Theory in The World, the Text, and the Critic. Harvard: Harvard University Press, 1983, Said, Edward. Culture and Imperialism. New York: Vintage Books, Said, Edward. Orientalism. New York: Vintage Books, Street, Brain V. Ch. 2 The English Abroad in The Savage in Literature: Representations of Primitive Society in English Fiction London: Routledge and Kegan Suleri, Sara. The Rhetoric of English India. Chicago: Chicago University Press, Sucher, Laurie. The Fiction of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: The Politics of Passion. Basingstoke : Macmillan, Urry, John. Sociology Beyond Societies: Mobilities for the Twenty-first Century. London and New York: Routledge, he_twenty-first_century 38. Wilson, Angus. The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling : His Life and Works. London : Secker & Warburg, Young, Tim. The Cambridge Introduction to Travel Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Zacharias, Greg W. A Companion to Henry James. Malden, Mass: Wiley- Blackwell, Chapter Two. What Daisy Knew: Reading Against Type in Daisy Miller: A Study by Sarah Wadswort,