Sustainable tourism science

CARLO MARTINEZ

General knowledge of the historical-literary development of the Language and Literature in question, with particular reference to the most important figures and the most significant literary movements.

Students will acquire familiarity with a wide range of literary terms and categories relating to literary history, theory, and criticism, including figurative language. They will also develop basic skills in the relatively new field of tourism studies, close reading, interpretation, historical contextualization, and critical thinking.

Students are expected to have a fairly good knowledge of English

TRAVELING IN/THROUGH AMERICAN LITERATURE: FROM THE ORIGINS TO THE EARLY REPUBLIC

Travels of settlement in Colonial America:
- William Bradford, From A Plymouth Plantation, Chapt. 9: “Of Their Voyage, and How They Passed the Sea and of Their Safe Arrival at Cape Cod” (1630 ca);
- John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity (1630);
- Mary Rowlandson, A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (First, Second, Third, Twelfth, and Twentieth Remove), (1682);

The Enlightenment in America:
- Sarah Kemble Knight, From The Private Journal of a Journey from Boston to New York in the Year 1704, “Saturday, October the Seventh” (1704 ca);
- J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, from Letters from an American Farmer, “What Is an American?” (1782);
- Phillis Wheatley, “On Being Brought from Africa to America” (1773);
- The Declaration of Independence (1776);

The Early Republic:
- Benjamin Franklin, “The Autobiography” (1791-1868) pp. 524-545; 574-585 Norton Anthology of American Literature, Fifth Edition;
- Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle” (1819);
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, “My visit to Niagara” (1825); “Young Goodman Brown” (1835);
-Edgar Allan Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1839); “A Morning on the Wissahiccon/The Elk” (1844); “The Philosophy of Composition” (1846);
-Fredrick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, An American Slave (1845);

Bibliografia Critica:
- Judith Hamera and Alfred Bendixen, “Introduction: New worlds and Old Lands – the Travel Book and the Construction of American Identity”, in The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing, edited by Alfred Bendixen and Judith Hamera, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2009, pp. 1-9;
- Sacvan Bercovitch, “La visione puritana del nuovo mondo”, in Storia della civiltà letteraria degli Stati Uniti, vol. 1, a cura di E. Elliott, Torino, UTET, 1990, pp. 28-37;
- Introduction and Timeline –“Early American Literature 1620-1820”, in The Norton Anthology of American Literature, ed. by Nina Baym, Fifth Edition, vol. 1, pp. 153-163;
- Introduction and Timeline – “American Literature 1820-1865”, in The Norton Anthology of American Literature, ed. by Nina Baym, Fifth Edition, vol. 1, pp. 917-931.

TRAVELING IN/THROUGH AMERICAN LITERATURE: FROM THE ORIGINS TO THE EARLY REPUBLIC

Travels of settlement in Colonial America:
- William Bradford, From A Plymouth Plantation, Chapt. 9: “Of Their Voyage, and How They Passed the Sea and of Their Safe Arrival at Cape Cod” (1630 ca);
- John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity (1630);
- Mary Rowlandson, A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (First, Second, Third, Twelfth, and Twentieth Remove), (1682);

The Enlightenment in America:
- Sarah Kemble Knight, From The Private Journal of a Journey from Boston to New York in the Year 1704, “Saturday, October the Seventh” (1704 ca);
- J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, from Letters from an American Farmer, “What Is an American?” (1782);
- Phillis Wheatley, “On Being Brought from Africa to America” (1773);
- The Declaration of Independence (1776);

The Early Republic:
- Benjamin Franklin, “The Autobiography” (1791-1868) pp. 524-545; 574-585 Norton Anthology of American Literature, Fifth Edition;
- Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle” (1819);
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, “My visit to Niagara” (1825); “Young Goodman Brown” (1835);
-Edgar Allan Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1839); “A Morning on the Wissahiccon/The Elk” (1844); “The Philosophy of Composition” (1846);
-Fredrick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, An American Slave (1845);

Bibliografia Critica:
- Judith Hamera and Alfred Bendixen, “Introduction: New worlds and Old Lands – the Travel Book and the Construction of American Identity”, in The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing, edited by Alfred Bendixen and Judith Hamera, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2009, pp. 1-9;
- Sacvan Bercovitch, “La visione puritana del nuovo mondo”, in Storia della civiltà letteraria degli Stati Uniti, vol. 1, a cura di E. Elliott, Torino, UTET, 1990, pp. 28-37;
- Introduction and Timeline –“Early American Literature 1620-1820”, in The Norton Anthology of American Literature, ed. by Nina Baym, Fifth Edition, vol. 1, pp. 153-163;
- Introduction and Timeline – “American Literature 1820-1865”, in The Norton Anthology of American Literature, ed. by Nina Baym, Fifth Edition, vol. 1, pp. 917-931.

Lectures; students class presentations; class discussions.

Not mandatory, but strongly recommended

The final oral exam will consist of a number of questions (from 3 to 5) on the literary works included in the syllabus, and on their connections with the field of tourism studies.
The exam will assess the following abilities: detailed knowledge and contextualization of the literary works; textual analysis and knowledge of the main formal and thematic features of the literary works; discussion of their relevance for tourism, based on the critical bibliography included in the syllabus.
Students will receive an excellent score (26-30) when showing a detailed knowledge and an ability to contextualize the literary texts, to discuss and apply critical perspectives of tourism studies to the literary works. They will get a sufficient score (10-25) when showing an overall knowledge of the literary works and of tourism studies. The score will be insufficient when the minimum knowledge of texts and critical bibliography are lacking.

How are literature and tourism connected? Why travel is a recurrent theme in American literature from its inception? How does this theme change from colonial to antebellum America? How is travel represented in Nathaniel Hawthorne?

• Course introduction; travel in Am. lit.; indicstions and explanations of
  the syllabus; way class is going to be held; final exam, etc.


• Course introduction; travel in Am. lit.; indicstions and explanations of
  the syllabus; way class is going to be held; final exam, etc.; introduction to colonial America.


• William
  Bradford and the first wave of pilgrim fathers.
  • Books: William
    
    Bradford, From A Plymouth Plantation, Chapt. 9: “Of Their Voyage, and
    
    How They Passed the Sea and of Their Safe Arrival at Cape Cod”


• John
  Winthrop and the second wave of Pilgrim Fathers
  • Books: John
    
    Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity (1630)


• Mary Rowlandsonand the Indian Captivity Narrative
  • Books: Mary Rowlandson, A Narrative ofthe Captivity and
    
    Restorationof
    
    
    
    Mrs.
    
    Mary Rowlandson (First, Second, Third, Twelfth, and Twentieth
    
    Remove), (1682)


• Introduction to the Enlightenment in America


• Sarah
  Kemble Knight and women on the frontier
  • Books: Sarah
    
    Kemble Knight, From The Private Journal of a Journey from Boston to New York
    
    in the Year 1704, “Saturday, October the Seventh” (1704 ca).


• Crèvecoeur and the origins of the American self
  • Books: J.
    
    Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, from Letters from an American Farmer, “What
    
    Is an American?” (1782)


• Phillis Wheatley and slavery in America
  • Books: Phillis
    
    Wheatley, “On Being Brought from Africa to America” (1773).


• The Declaration of Indipendence and the birth of the USA
  • Books: The Declaration of Independence (1776).


• Introduction to the Early Republic


• Benjamin Franklinand the US self
  • Books: Excerpts from B. Franklin's Autobiography


• Washington Irving and the nation building process
  • Books: W. Irving "Rip Van Winkle" (1819).


• Introduction to antebellum America


• Nathaniel Hawthorne and the birth of American tourism
  • Books: Nathaniel Hawthorne, "My Visit to Niagara" (1825).


• Nathaniel Hawthorneand the tale
  • Books: Nathaniel Hawthorne,"Young Goodman Brown" (1835)


• Edgar Allan Poe, and American gothic
  • Books: Edgar
    
    Allan Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1839).


• Edgar Allan Poe, readership and American tourism
  • Books: Edgar Allan Poe, “A Morning on the Wissahiccon/The Elk”
    
    (1844);
    
    
    
    “The
    
    Philosophy of Composition” (1846).


• Fredrick Douglass and the "peculiar institution" part I.
  • Books: Fredrick
    
    Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, An American Slave
    
    (1845) part I.


• Fredrick Douglass and the "peculiar institution" part II.
  • Books: Fredrick
    
    Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, An American Slave
    
    (1845) part II.


• Final class