Testi di riferimento
Molti testi primari saranno raccolti in una dispensa reperibile alla libreria CLU. Il testo di - Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark, va acquistato separatamente e letto per intero, Introduzione compresa.
In aggiunta, gli studenti dovranno leggere i seguenti romanzi:
- Monica Ali, Brick Lane, 2003
- Meera Syal, Anita and Me, 1997, oppure
- Meera Syal, Life isn't all ha ha hee hee, 2003
Testi secondari
Reference books:
- Niall Ferguson, Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power, New York Basic Books. 2004
o in alternativa:
- Lawrence James, The Rise and Fall of the British Empire, London, Abacus, 1998
- Edward Said, Orientalism, London, Routledge 1978 (versione italiana Biblioteca Universitaria, versione inglese a Scienze Politiche)
- - Lia Guerra, Carlotta Farese, "Letteratura e viaggio" in Manuale di letteratura e cultura inglese, a cura di L.M Crisafulli e K.Elam, Bononia University Press, 2009, pp 503-517
Literary criticism:
- Mary Louise Pratt, Imperial Eyes, Travel Writing and Transculturation, London, Routledge 1992 (chapters 1, 2 and 5), pp.1-37; 86-87; 102-107.
- Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies, Two Women’s Travel Narratives of the 1790s, edited by D:Coleman, Leicester University Press, 1999. (Introduction) pp.1-42.
-The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing, eds. P.Hulme, T.Youngs, Cambridge University Press. 2004 (Introduction; chapters 1, 2, 13), pp.1-13, 17-52, 225-241.
- Indira Ghose, The Power of the Female Gaze, Women Travellers in Colonial India, Oxford University Press, 1998 (Introduction; chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8), pp.1-87; 127-166.
- Lia Guerra, "Scandinavia 1795. Rapporto dai confini dell'Europa" in Studi Settecenteschi, 15, 1995 pp. 281-330.
- Mary Favret. Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Travelling with Mary Wollstonecraft, in The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft ed. Claudia Johnson, Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp.209-227.
- Noemi Pereira-Ares, "The East looks at the West, the Woman looks at the Man: a Study of the Gaze in Brick Lane by Monica Ali"in Miscelànea: a journal of English and American Studies, 46 (2012):71-81.
Studenti non frequentanti devono prendere contatto con la docente, e leggere, oltre a quanto elencato sopra:
- Carl Thompson, Travel Writing, London, Routledge, 2011