Science,
Sociability, and Civil Society:
The
Birth of Enlightenment (1700-1750)
Week
1: (September 2-6):
Week
2: (September 9-13):
Week
3: (September 16-20):
- Monday, September
16: Jonathan Swift's Gulliver’s Travels
- Required Readings:
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, pp. IV-IX, 3-59, 127-147,
152-164, 191-211, 231-260
- Wednesday, September
18: Handel's London: England in the Age of
Walpole
- Required Readings:
Montesquieu, Persian Letters, "Preface," Letter 146
- Friday, September
20: Swift's Blefuscu: France under the Sun
King
- Required Readings:
Montesquieu, Persian Letters, Letters 1-14, 26-50, 54-61, 64-66,
69
Week
4: (September 23-27):
- Monday, September
23: Regency France and the Rococo
- Required Readings:
Montesquieu, Persian Letters, Letters 72-75, 80, 87-92, 95, 97-109,
128-137, 147-161
- Wednesday, September
25: Montesquieu’s Persian Letters
- Required Readings:
Montesquieu, Persian Letters, "Some Reflections on the Persian
Letters."
- Friday, September
27: The Radical Enlightenment
Week
5: (September 30- October 4):
- Monday, September
30: Voltaire, Letters on England
- Required Readings:
Voltaire, Letters on England (Letter 25, “On the Pensées
of M. Pascal,” can be skipped)
- Wednesday, October
2: The Newton Wars
- Friday, October 4:
Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopedia
- Required Readings:
Diderot, “Encyclopedia,”
in Rameau’s Nephew and Other Works, pp. 277-307
Week
6: (October 7-11):
Week
7: (October 14-18):
Week
8: (October 21-25):
- Wednesday, October
23: MID-TERM EXAM
- Friday, October 25:
MID-TERM EXAM
Enlightenment,
Counter-Enlightenment, Revolution, Reaction:
The
Birth of Modernity (1750-1815)
Week
9: (October 28-November 1):
Week
10: (November 4-8):
Week
11: (November 11-15):
Week
12: (November 18-22):
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-
Required
Readings: The
Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, pp.
19-50, 56-57, 70-71, 76-84, 101-111, and 168-178.
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Week
13: (November 25-29):
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Monday,
November 25: Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro
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Wednesday,
November 27: Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro
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Friday,
November 29: THANKSGIVING VACATION—NO CLASS
Week
14: (December 2-6):
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Required
Readings:
-
Abbé
Sieyes, from "What is the Third Estate?" (PCOPY)
- The Declaration
of the Rights of Man and Citizen (PCOPY)
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Edmund
Burke, from Reflections on the Revolution in France, in
Burke, Paine, Godwin and the Revolution Controversy, 33-49
- Mary Wollstonecraft,
from Vindication of the Rights of Men and Women, in Burke,
Paine, Godwin and the Revolution Controversy, 72-79
- Thomas Paine,
from The Rights of Man, in Burke, Paine, Godwin and the
Revolution Controversy, 107-112
- Thomas Paine,
from The Age of Reason, in Burke, Paine, Godwin and the
Revolution Controversy, 122-128
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Week
15: (December 9-13):
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-
Required
Readings:
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Hannah
Moore, "Village Politics," in Burke, Paine, Godwin
and the Revolution Controversy, 179-84
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Daniel
Isaac Eaton, "Politics for the People, or Hog's Wash,"
in Burke, Paine, Godwin and the Revolution Controversy, 185-88
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William
Godwin, from Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, in
Burke, Paine, Godwin and the Revolution Controversy, 149-69
- Excerpts from
the "Anti-Jacobin, or Weekly Examiner," in Burke, Paine,
Godwin and the Revolution Controversy, 214-219
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Required
Readings:
- Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, "Addresses to the People," in Burke, Paine,
Godwin and the Revolution Controversy, 195-202
- William Wordsworth,
Letter and "Preface" to Lyrical Ballads, in Burke,
Paine, Godwin and the Revolution Controversy, 224-232
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Week
16: (December 16-21):
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Friday,
December 20:
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- TERM PAPERS
(for those enrolled in 3004) DUE: Before
5:00 PM