Topic outline

  • General

  • Course Description

    • Semester: 01+02 (Master 1 LC)

      Teaching Unit: Fundamental

      Module: The MENA in English Literature

      Teacher: Dr Souad BAGHLI BERBAR 

      Credits: 03                                                                                            

      Coefficient: 03


    • Contact details

      Dr Souad Baghli Berbar

      souad.baghli@univ-tlemcen.dz


    • M1 MENA


      Syllabus

      The Middle East and North Africa in English Literature


      1.         Introduction to the course
       2.         The Elizabethan Perception of North Africa and the Orient

                             Christopher Marlowe: Tamburlaine the Great

                             William Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus,  Othello, Antony and Cleopatra

       3.         Eighteenth-century Perception

      Travellers' Accounts:      

                                                  Thomas Shaw: Travels or Observations

                                                  Lady Montagu: Turkish Letters

      Captivity Narratives:

      Joseph Pitts: Faithful Account of The Religion and Manners of The Mahometans

         James Cathcart: The Captives: Eleven Years a Prisoner in Algiers

         Royall Tyler: The Algerine Captive, or The Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill: Six Years a Prisoner Among the Algerines

       

      References

      Baepler, Paul (ed). White Slaves, African Masters: An Anthology of American Barbary Captivity. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1999.

      Baghli Berbar, Souad. “Wintering in Algeria: Mediterranean Influences on Well-to-do Victorians” in Revue LAROS n. 9. Oran: Dar El Quods El Arabi, September 2014. ISSN: 1112-5373.

      Bencherif, Osman. The British in Algiers 1585-2000. Paris: RSM Communication, 2001.

      Chew, Samuel. The Crescent and the Rose: Islam and England during the Renaissance. NY: OUP, 1937.

      Conant, Martha Pike. The Oriental Tale in England in the Eighteenth Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 1908.

      Gawalt, Gerard W. America and the Barbary Pirates:  An International Battle against an Unconventional Foe. US Library of Congress, 2011. https://archive.org/stream/Documents-On-Diplomacy/ReadingsAmericaAndTheBarbaryPirates_djvu.txt

      Kabbani, Rana. Europe’s Myths of the Orient. London: Macmillan, 1986.

      Maalouf, Amine. Léon L’Africain. Paris: Jean-Claude Lattès, 1986.

      Nassar, Issam. “Maudrell in Jerusalem: Reflections on the writing of an Early European Tourist”. Institute for Palestine Studies, Issue 9. 2000, 62-64. <https://www.palestine-studies.org/jq/fulltext/78133>

      Said, Edward. Orientalism. London: Penguin, 1978.



  • Introduction

    • The MENA in English literature is a Master1 fundamental literature seminar running over 2 semesters for students of Anglo-Saxon Literature and Civilization specialty. It is continued for another semester at Master2 level.

      The Middle East and North Africa in English Literature deals with the description, by authors writing in English, of the MENA region referred to as “the Orient” or the East and follows the evolution of this perception in the course of time. The course is based on the study of primary sources in the form of excerpts from literary works by Anglo-Saxon authors that mention Oriental people and places. The purpose is to critically analyze the image of the MENA or the Orient in these texts and to examine the changes in perception from the 16th to the 19th centuries. The 20th century is to be covered in Master2.

      Said Orientalism

  • Elizabethan Perception

  • Eighteenth-century Perception

  • Captivity Narratives

    • Joseph Pitts: Faithful Account of The Religion and Manners of The Mahometans

         James Cathcart: The Captives: Eleven Years a Prisoner in Algiers

      James Cathcart


         Royall Tyler: The Algerine Captive, or The Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill: Six Years a Prisoner Among the Algerines


  • Second Semester

    • Syllabus

      Oriental Tales:

                               The Arabian Nights

                               William Beckford Vathek

      The Nineteenth Century:

      Romantic Novels: 

                               Walter Scott Talisman

                               Benjamin Disraeli Tancred

      Romantic poetry: 

                               Southey, Byron, Coleridge, Moore, Shelley

                              American Orientalism: Washington Irving, Herman Melville 


      Victorian Travellers

                                Thomas Campbell, W. Scaven Blunt, Sir Richard Burton

                                 Colonel Scott A Journal of the Residence in the Esmailla of Abdelkader

                                 Alexander Kinglake Eothen

      American Realists

                                William Mayo The Berber or The Mountaineer of the Atlas: A Tale of Morocco

                                Mark Twain Innocents Abroad

  • Oriental Tales

    • The second source of information about the MENA which proved highly influential by the end of the 18th century on the whole of Europe is what is called the Oriental tale or Arabian tale, beginning with the Arabian Nights.

      Edward Lane’s The Arabian Nights


      Arabian Nights

      The Book of The THOUSAND NIGHTS AND A NIGHT (ALF LAYLAH WA LAYLAH) By Sir Richard F. Burton (1885)



    • William Beckford’s The History of the Caliph Vathek

                  https://www.gutenberg.org/files/42401/42401-h/42401-h.htm


  • Romanticism

  • Romantic Poems

    • Robert Southey’s “Thalaba the Destroyer”

      Lord Byron “The Giaour: A Fragment of a Turkish Tale” (1813)  “The Corsair” (1814), THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS(1813)

      Samuel Taylor Coleridge's “Kubla Khan” (1816)

      Thomas Moore “Lalla Rookh” An Oriental Romance (1817)

      Percy Bysshe Shelley “The Revolt of Islam” (1818)


  • American Romanrics

    • Washington Irving

      Mahomet and His Successors

      Herman Melville

      Melville


  • Victorian Travellers

    • Thomas Campbell Letters from the South (1837)

      https://books.google.dz/books?id=gQY6AQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false


      Colonel Scott: A Journal of the Residence in the Esmailla of Abdelkader and of Travels in Morroco and Algiers (1842)

      https://books.google.dz/books?id=mm0tzqLX-1MC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false


      W.M. Thackeray “Abd-El-Kader at Toulon or, The Caged Hawk”

        … Weep, maidens of Zerifah, above the laden loom!  
        Scar, chieftains of Al Elmah, your cheeks in grief and gloom!
        Sons of the Beni Snazam, throw down the useless lance,
        And stoop your necks and bare your backs to yoke and scourge of France!
       
        Twas not in fight they bore him down; he never cried amàn;
        He never sank his sword before the PRINCE OF FRANGHISTAN;
        But with traitors all around him, his star upon the wane,
        He heard the voice of ALLAH, and he would not strive in vain.
       
        They gave him what he asked them; from king to king he spake,
        As one that plighted word and seal not knoweth how to break;
        "Let me pass from out my deserts, be't mine own choice where to go,
        I brook no fettered life to live, a captive and a show."  tolerate
       
        And they promised, and he trusted them, and proud and calm he came,
        Upon his black mare riding, girt with his sword of fame.  belt
        Good steed, good sword, he rendered both unto the Frankish throngcrowd,
        He knew them false and fickle—but a Prince's word is strong.
       
        How have they kept their promise?  Turned they the vessel's prow
        Unto Acre, Alexandria, as they have sworn e'en now?
        Not so: from Oran northwards the white sails gleam and glance,
        And the wild hawk of the desert is borne away to France!
       
        Where Toulon's white-walled lazaret looks southward o'er the wave,
        Sits he that trusted in the word a son of Louis gave.
        O noble faith of noble heart!  And was the warning vain,
        The text writ by the BOURBON in the blurred black book of Spain?
       
        They have need of thee to gaze on, they have need of thee to grace
        The triumph of the Prince, to gild the pinchbeck of their race.
        Words are but wind, conditions must be construed by GUIZOT;
        Dash out thy heart, thou desert hawk, ere thou art made a show! 
      Wilfrid Scawen Blunt My Diaries: Being a Personal Narrative of
      Events, 1888-1914
      https://archive.org/details/mydiariesbeingpe192101blun


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