This course traces the intersecting histories of printed image reproduction and travel narratives from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. This period includes major illustrated publications relating to the Grand Tour, the Enlightenment voyages of exploration and discovery, the domestic tours and internal colonialism of Britain and France, and the growing record of white colonial settlement and imperial conquest throughout the world. Course readings draw upon recent research in printmaking and print culture, the history of the book, postcolonial studies, and analyses of travel writing. Students will choose research topics that make use of major print collections in our area and develop papers that draw upon their own geographic and period interests.