ENGL 2P13 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Derek Gregory, Thesis Statement, Human Geography
15 Sep 2013
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Scholar in human geography; interested in the ways people use space. Read foucault and said; interested in the ways that people construct the world through language. Want to write about travel, space, movement, and the british empire. Notice that many travel writers have travelled on the nile and written about it. Both flaubert and nightingale travelled on the nile around 1850 and wrote letters about it. But one was french and one was english, one was male one was female. Given their similar assumptions as 19th century, bourgeois europeans, to what extent did flaubert and. Juxtapose the two texts; look for similarities and differences across the two works. Read and annotate the letters; look for patterns, tensions, repetition, contradictions, etc. Read secondary sources related to the two travellers. Read secondary sources about 19th century travel writers in egypt, in general. Once you have begun reading the text, transform the question into a working thesis statement.
