週次
Week
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課程主題
Topic
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課程內容與指定閱讀
Content and Reading Assignment
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教學活動與作業
Teaching Activities and Homework
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學習投入時間
Student workload expectation
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課堂講授
In-class Hours
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課程前後
Outside-of-class Hours
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1
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Course Introduction
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‘Theories of the gaze’ (2006), by Jeremy Hawthorn
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Lecture and Discussion
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x
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x
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2
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The Grand Tour
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‘The Grand Tour and after’ (1660-1840)
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Lecture and Discussion
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2 hours
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10 hours
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3
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Exploration and Curiosity 1/2
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‘Exploration and travel outside Europe, 1720-1914’ (2002), by Roy Bridges
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Lecture and Discussion
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2 hours
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10 hours
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4
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Exploration and Curiosity 2/2
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The Voyage of the Endeavour (1768-71), by James Cook
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Lecture and Discussion
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2 hours
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10 hours
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5
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Female Traveler 1/2
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‘Embassy Letters’ (1716-18), by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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Lecture and Discussion
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2 hours
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10 hours
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6
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Female Traveler 2/2
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Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland (1803), by Dorothy Wordsworth
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Lecture and Discussion
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2 hours
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10 hours
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7
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Scottish Tourism 1/2
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775), by Samuel Johnson
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Lecture and Discussion
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2 hours
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10 hours
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8
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Scottish Tourism 2/2
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“‘Scotland is Scott-Land’”: Scott and the Development of Tourism (2006), by Alastair Durie
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Lecture and Discussion
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2 hours
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10 hours
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9
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Travels in Africa
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Travels in the Interior District of Africa (1799), by Mungo Park
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Lecture and Discussion
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2 hours
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10 hours
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10
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Slavery Narrative 1/2
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The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave (1831), by Mary Prince
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Lecture and Discussion
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2 hours
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10 hours
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11
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Slavery Narrative 2/2
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789) by Olaudah Equiano
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Midterm Paper Submission
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x
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x
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12
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Midterm
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x
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Lecture and Discussion
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2 hours
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10 hours
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13
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Pedestrianism 1/2
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Various Works by Wordsworth
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Lecture and Discussion
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2 hours
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10 hours
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14
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Pedestrianism 2/2
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Various Works by Coleridge
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Lecture and Discussion
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2 hours
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10 hours
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15
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Travel Writing and Imperial Violence 1/3
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The Surgeon’s Daughter (1827) by Walter Scott
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Lecture and Discussion
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2 hours
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10 hours
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16
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Travel Writing and Imperial Violence 2/3
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Heart of Darkness (1899), by Joseph Conrad
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Lecture and Discussion
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2 hours
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10 hours
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17
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Travel Writing and Imperial Violence 3/3
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Kim (1901) by Rudyard Kipling
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Lecture and Discussion
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2 hours
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10 hours
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18
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Course Conclusion
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x
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Submission of Final Term Paper
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x
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x
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Paper: 60%
Two critical papers (2000-3000 words each) to be submitted on respectively week 12 and week 18. The assignment will require both literary and historical critical research and reference to sources. All references (including bibliography and footnotes) should be either MLA (American) or MHRA (British) format. Single space, Times New Roman x12, A4 paper. Submission: hard copy, NO electronic submission. Plagiarism is strictly forbidden.
Oral Report: 20%
The group oral presentation to the class should be around 20-30 minutes. The group will be required to provide an outline to the lecturer, as well as a copy of the bibliography or reference to each student in the class at the time of the presentation.
Attendance: 20%
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- Percy G. Adams, Travel Literature and the Evolution of the Novel (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1983)
- David Spurr, The Rhetoric of Empire: Colonial Discourse in Journalism, Travel Writing, and Administration (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 1993)
- Tim Fulford, and Carol Bolton, Travels, Explorations and Empires: Writings from the Era of Imperial Expansion, 1770-1835, 7 vols. (London Pickering and Chatto, 2001)
- Nigel Leask, Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing, 1770-1840: ‘From an Antique Land’ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002)
- Peter Hulme, and Tim Youngs, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002)
- George Dekker, The Fictions of Romantic Tourism: Radcliffe, Scott, and Mary Shelly (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004)
- Kate Teltscher, The High Road to China: George Bogle, the Panchen Lama and the First British Expedition to Tibet (London: Bloomsbury, 2006)
- Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin, Post-colonial Studies: The Key Concepts, 2nd edn (London and New York: Routledge, 2007)
- Mary Louise Pratt, Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation, 2nd edn (London: Routledge, 1992, 2008)
- Tim Youngs, The Cambridge Introduction to Travel Writing (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013)
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