Discomforting Narratives: Teaching Eighteenth-Century Women's Travelogues
Journal: ABO Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts 1640-1830
Year: 2014

In this essay, I describe an undergraduate course I designed and taught on eighteenth-century women’s travelogues and advocate for more courses that explicitly focus on noncanonical genres and authors. Using student papers, I explore how students worked through their discomfort with new genre conventions and improved their overall reading and analytical skills. I hope that my outline of the course will be useful to those who teach or will be teaching women's travel literature or who wish to focu