ENG 350 – Travel Writing Workshop: The Writer and the City

Course Description

This travel writing course will guide students to find their own voice in responding to the city of Florence and their own experience of it. Since the nineteenth century – and even before – Florence and Tuscany have provided inspiration for many Anglo-American writers: poets (Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Lowell), novelists (E.M. Forster, Sarah Dunant) and travel writers/memoirists (John Ruskin, Mary McCarthy). After reading and discussing their work we will add our voices to theirs.

Assignments, in the form of non-fiction, short stories, and poetry, will focus on helping students to find an individual voice, develop ideas and hone them through revisions and drafting. Emphasis will also be placed on the student’s ability to evaluate and critique their own work and that of others. Walking tours of the city and its outskirts will be an important part of the course.

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