Princeton University - Department of English
Professor: Jonathan Lamb
Preceptor: Laura Sayre
ENG321
Travel in Eighteenth-Century Fiction and Prose Narrative
Additional Reading
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- 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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