Contenidos teóricos y prácticos de la asignatura
1. Before and After the Spanish Conquest: The Atlantic Ocean and the Canary Islands. Empire and colonization.
2. The Image of the Canaries in the Early English Sources. Sugar mills. Canarian wines. Mount Teide as seen by the English Sources. Thomas Nichols' and Edmund Scory's texts.
3. The 18th Century Sources: The Enlightenment: J. Edens and George Glas.
4. The 19th Century and the First Third of the 20th. Women travellers: Olivia Stone, Elzabeth Murray, Marianne North. The Birth of Tourism.
5. From the Spanish Civil War to Nowadays. Agatha Christie and Basil Bunting.
Actividades a desarrollar en otro idioma
La asignatura se impartirá en ingles. Sin embargo, dado el carácter de la misma, parte del material de lectura puede estar escrito en castellano, por lo que se recomienda tener un nivel de competencia en español satisfactorio (B1 en lectura).