This seminar will focus on two iconic travel narratives of the period, Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719) and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726), which are still present in the collective popular imagination today. In addition to examining their relationship with non-fictional travel accounts and to exploring their historical contexts as well as their allegorical significance, we will investigate their more recent reception in the form of graphic novels, advertising campaigns, and political cartoons.
Every student is expected to read both texts in preparation for this seminar.
- Lehrende/r: Kirsten Juhas
Semester: WT 2023/24