Teori- og referansebok er Peter Hulme og Tim Youngs (red.) The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002). Følgjande kapittel er pensum:
- Peter Hulme og Tim Youngs, 'Introduction'
- Roy Bridges, 'Exploration and Travel Outside Europe (1720-1914)'
- Helen Carr, 'Modernism and Travel'
- Susan Bassnett, 'Travel Writing and Gender'
- Mary Baine Campell, 'Travel Writing and its Theory'
Wollstonecraft, Mary : Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark , 1796. (extract).
Lord Byron: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage , 1812. (cantos I and II) .
Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness , 1899.
Woolf, Virginia : The Voyage Out , 1915.
Greene, Graham : The Lawless Roads , 1939.
I tillegg vil studentar som tar emnet som eit "hovedemne" (15 sp) innanfor eit hovedfagsstudium, leggje opp:
Frå The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing:
- James Buzard, 'The Grand Tour and After'
- Peter Hulme, 'Travelling to Write'
- Tim Youngs, 'Africa/The Congo: the Politics of Darkness'.
Wordsworth, William: Descriptive Sketches Taken During a Pedestrian Tour among the Alps , 1792.
Stanley, Henry Morton : In Darkest Africa , 1890. (extract) .
Theroux, Paul : The Great Railway Bazaar , 1975.
Tilrådd tilleggslitteratur vil bli presentert i første møte. Ei nyttig referansebok er The Literature of Travel and Exploration (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2002). Tendensar i studiet av reiselitteratur er reflekterte i tidsskriftet Studies in Travel Writing