Remember to move beyond summary and focus your responses on analysis of the texts. Also, feel free to make use of your book and course notes for verifying information and supporting your points. If you quote from the text, please include the page number in parenthesis after the quotation. If you use any outside sources, be sure to cite them.
1. The Body
There are a number of ways bodies appear in the texts we have read, including the physical or human body, the foreign or exotic body, the national body, the gendered body, and the disabled or diseased body. Choose ONE of the four types of bodies listed here and describe how that type of body was important in TWO of the texts we have read so far this term.2. Travel
Many of the texts we have read over the past two weeks have incorporated travel into the plot. Discuss TWO of the texts that have incorporated travel. What are some of the conventions you have observed in these travel narratives? How has travel played a role in the development of the plot, characters, and meaning of the text?3. Issues of Politics and Religion
Most of our readings so far this term have engaged with contemporary issues of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. Choose TWO texts that address a single issue of contemporary politics OR religion. How do the texts incorporate that contemporary issue? What position does each text take on that issue?4. Literary Terms
Choose ONE of the following literary terms that appear in the texts we have discussed so far in this course: satire, sublime, or sentimentalism. Define the term and indicate any sources used for your definition (course materials or an outside source). Describe how that term appears in TWO of the texts in this course and why it is important in those texts.
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