Module Details
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Title RENAISSANCE ROUGH GUIDES: EARLY ENGLISH TRAVEL WRITING
Code ENGL392
Coordinator Prof N Das
English
N.Das@liverpool.ac.uk
Year CATS Level Semester CATS Value
Session 2018-19 Level 6 FHEQ First Semester 15

Aims

  • To explore the range of travel-related writing produced in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

  • To examine texts of both real and imaginary travel produced in this period of voyages and discoveries.

  • To investigate the ways in which such texts engaged with real cultural and political changes, including Renaissance England’s connections with other nations in both the Old world and the New, and the construction of concepts such as ‘Englishness’ and the ‘foreign’.

  • To ask questions about the relationship bet ween travel writing and various other areas of debate (its relationship with fiction, for instance, or with colonialism, and gender).


    • Learning Outcomes

    Demonstrate a knowledge of the various forms of travel-related writing from the period.

    Understand and analyse the relationship between the texts and larger cultural and political issues.

    Identify and critique the structural and rhetorical strategies used in the texts.

    Present own research and analysis of texts through presentations and written work in a critically informed manner.

    Syllabus
    1 

    Topics covered will typically include a choice of texts from the following selection:

    (1) Advice to travellers: Sidney’s letter to his brother on travel; Bacon, ‘Of Travel’

    (2) Africa and the Americas: Selections from Hakluyt’s Voyages; Africanus; Raleigh; Montaigne; Beaumont and Fletcher’s play, The Sea Voyage; Drayton, ‘Ode to the Virginian Voyage’; Marvell, ‘Bermudas’; Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Book II, Proem.

    (3) The English in Italy: Roger Ascham’s ‘Italianate Englishman’; Thomas Coryat; Anthony Munday: English Roman Life; Thomas Nashe: The Unfortunate Traveller

    (4) India and the Ottoman Empire: Selections from Edward Terry’s Voyage to East India; Shirley’s Travels into Persia; John Day, William Rowley and George Wilkins: The Travels of the Three English Brothers; Richard Daborne’s The Christian Turn’d Turk

    (5) Stranger in your own land: Selections from John Lyly’s Euphues in England; Henry Peacham’s The Art of Living in London; Dekker’s Bellman of London


    Teaching and Learning Strategies

    Seminar -

    The seminars are designed to explore the travel texts, and will include mini-lectures and groupwork. They will enable you to clarify and develop your understanding of the reading, and provide opportunities to explore and extend your overall grasp of exisiting work and research opportunities.

    Tutorial -

    Individual drop-in tutorials will be available while you are planning your two pieces of assessment, and to discuss your feedback on assessment 1.

    Online -

    You will be given guidelines to explore online material through the university library provisions in preparation for the seminars, and will be asked to contribute to group discussions online on a regular basis. This will provide important opportunities to ensure your preparedness for the assessment tasks.

    Assessment -

    For assessment 1, you will have to present your research to the group in a conference-style session and respond to questions, and contribute to the question and answer sessions involving other students.

    Teaching Schedule
      Lectures Seminars Tutorials Lab Practicals Fieldwork Placement Other TOTAL
    Study Hours   24

    		 1

    		     6

    4

    		 35
    Timetable (if known)   The seminars are designed to explore the travel texts, and will include mini-lectures and groupwork. They will enable you to clarify and develop your understanding of the reading, and provide opportu
          		Individual drop-in tutorials will be available while you are planning your two pieces of assessment, and to discuss your feedback on assessment 1.
          		    You will be given guidelines to explore online material through the university library provisions in preparation for the seminars, and will be asked to contribute to group discussions online on a regu
    For assessment 1, you will have to present your research to the group in a conference-style session and respond to questions, and contribute to the question and answer sessions involving other student
          		 
    Private Study 115
    TOTAL HOURS 150

    Assessment
    EXAM Duration Timing
    (Semester)    		 % of
    final
    mark    		 Resit/resubmission
    opportunity    		 Penalty for late
    submission    		 Notes
                 
    CONTINUOUS Duration Timing
    (Semester)    		 % of
    final
    mark    		 Resit/resubmission
    opportunity    		 Penalty for late
    submission    		 Notes
    Coursework  1000-word writeup an  Semester 1  40  Yes  Standard UoL penalty applies  Assessment 1 
    Coursework  3000 words (excludin  Semester 1  60  Yes  Standard UoL penalty applies  Assessment 2 Notes (applying to all assessments) Coursework 1: Seminar Presentation (1000-word written version to be submitted to tutor after presentation along with portfolio of research material used for the presentation.) Coursework 2: 3,000 word essay based on research topic chosen in consultation with the tutor.  

    Recommended Texts
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