Princeton University - Department of English

Professor: Jonathan Lamb

Preceptor: Laura Sayre

ENG321

Travel in Eighteenth-Century Fiction and Prose Narrative

Additional Reading

• Books on 24 Hour Reserve:
  • Nancy Armstrong, Desire and Domestic Fiction

    Armstrong and Tennenhouse, Imaginary Puritan

    Ros Ballaster, Seductive Forms

    John Barrell, English Literature in History 1730-80

    Peter Hulme, Colonial Encounters

    --------------- and Ludmilla Jordanova, The Enlightenment and its Shadows

    J.P. Hunter, Before Novels

    Michael McKeon, Origins of the English Novel

    Felicity Nussbaum and Laura Brown eds, The New Eighteenth Century

    Ian Watt, The Rise of the Novel

  General Reading List:

  • George van den Abbeele, Travel as Metaphor

    James Adair, The History of the American Indians

    James Axtell, Encounters in Colonial North America

    Edmund Burke, A Vindication of Natural Society

    James Boon, Other Tribes, Other Scribes

    Jonathan Carver, Travels through North America

    P.X. de Charlevoix, Journal of a Voyage to North America

    James Clifford, The Predicament of Culture

    Linda Colley, Britons

    James Cook, Voyages of the Endeavour and the Resolution, ed J.C. Beaglehole

    Denis Diderot, Supplement to the Voyage of Bougainville

    Aileen Douglas, Uneasy Sensations: Smollett and the Body

    Adam Ferguson, An Essay on the History of Civil Society

    Stephen Greenblatt, Marvellous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World

    Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

    John Locke, Two Treatises of Government

    Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees

    Anthony Pagden, European Encounters in the New World

    John Pocock, The Machiavellian Moment

    --------------- Virtue, Commerce, History

    Mary Louise Pratt, Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation

    Guillaume Raynal, A Philosophical History of the Settlements in the East and West Indies

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Second Discourse: On the Origin of Inequality among Men

    Marshall Sahlins, Islands of History

    Anne Salmond, Two Worlds: First Meetings between Maori and Europeans

    Bernard Sheehan, Savagism and Civility: Indians and Englishment in Colonial Virginia

    O.H.K. Spate, Paradise Found and Lost

    Barbara Stafford, Voyage into Substance

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