Humanities 1004/3004:
Thought
and Culture in the West,
1700-1815
Required Readings
The
following texts are required and are available for purchase at the University
Bookstore:
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Jean
Le Rond d’Alembert, Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia (University
of Chicago, 1995);
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Beaumarchais,
Barber of Seville and Marriage of Figaro (Penguin, 1990);
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Marilyn
Butler ed., Burke, Paine, Godwin and the Revolution Controversy (Cambridge
University, 1995);
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Denis
Diderot, Rameau’s Nephew and Other Works, Jacques Barzun and
Ralph H. Bowen trans. (Hackett, 2001);
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Margaret
C. Jacob and Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs, Newton and the Culture of Newtonianism
(Humanities Press, 1994);
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Montesquieu,
Persian Letters, C.J. Betts trans. (Penguin, 1990);
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Jean-Jacques
Rousseau, Political Writings (Norton, 2001);
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Mary
Shelley, Frankenstein (Penguin);
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Jonathan
Swift, Gulliver’s Travels (Norton, 2001);
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The
Interesting Narrative Life of Olaudah Equiano (Norton, 2001);
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Voltaire,
Letters on England, Leonard Tannock trans. (Penguin, 1980);