Discomforting Narratives: Teaching Eighteenth-Century Women’s Travelogues

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\u27s travel literature or who wish to focus courses on noncanonical authors and genres