Texts in order of use:

Locke: Second Treatise of Government (Hackett)

Hay and Rogers: Eighteenth-Century English Society (Oxford)

Doyle: The Oxford History of the French Revolution (Oxford, Reserve only)

Montesquieu: Persian Letters (Penguin)

Bryson: Word and Image (Cambridge)

Rousseau: Rousseau's Political Writings (Norton)

Darnton: The Great Cat Massacre (Vintage, Reserve only)

Blackbourn: The Long Nineteenth Century (Oxford)

Kant: Perpetual Peace and Other Essays (Hackett)

Mozart: The Magic Flute (English Opera Guides)

Furet: The French Revolution (Blackwell)

Walzer: Regicide and Revolution (Columbia)

Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France (Penguin)

Blake: The Complete Poems (Penguin)

Palmer and Colton: History of the Modern World, vol. 2 Since 1815 (Random, Reserve only)

Wordsworth: Selected Poems (Penguin)

Goethe: Goethe’s Faust Part I and selections from Part 2 (Anchor)

Hegel: Philosophy of Hegel (Modern Library)

Tucker (ed): The Marx Reader (Norton)

Mill: On Liberty (Penguin)

Bronte: Jane Eyre (Penguin)

WEEK 1 (AUG. 28-SEPT. 1): EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND: AN OLD REGIME?

Locke: Second Treatise of Government, chapters 1-11, 18-19.

Hay and Rogers: Eighteenth-Century English Society, pp. 1-70.

Lecture on Eighteenth-Century England: Segel, Mon., Aug. 28

Lecture on Locke: David Garrett, Wed., Aug. 30

 

WEEK 2 (SEPT. 4-8) [Sept. 4: Labor Day]: ANCIEN RÉGIME AND ENLIGHTENMENT

Doyle: Oxford History of the French Revolution, pp. 1-43.

Montesquieu: Spirit of the Laws (selection in Humanities 220 pamphlet).

Montesquieu: Persian Letters (Conference leaders will assign selections).

Lecture on Ancien Régime France: Mueller, Wed., Sept. 6

Lecture on Montesquieu: Segel, Fri., Sept. 8

 

WEEK 3 (SEPT. 11-15): ENLIGHTENMENT AND SENSIBILITÉ

Bryson: Word and Image, pp. 1-28 (recommended); 29-153.

Rousseau: "Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality among Men," in Rousseau’s Political Writings.

Lecture on Greuze and Fragonard: William Diebold, Mon., Sept. 11

Lecture on Rousseau: Mueller, Wed., Sept. 13

 

WEEK 4 (SEPT. 18-22): ENLIGHTENMENT UTOPIAS

Rousseau: "On Social Contract or Principles of Political Right," in Rousseau’s Political Writings.

Diderot: "The Encyclopedia" (selection in Humanities 220 pamphlet).

Darnton: The Great Cat Massacre, pp. 191-213 (Reserve only).

Kant: "What Is Enlightenment?" and "Project of Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose," in Perpetual Peace and Other Essays

Blackbourn: The Long Nineteenth Century, pp. 1-44.

Lecture on Rousseau: Darius Rejali, Mon., Sept. 18

Lecture on Kant: Gökberk, Wed., Sept. 20

 

WEEK 5 (SEPT. 25-29): ENLIGHTENMENT SEARCH FOR AUTHORITY

Mozart: Magic Flute (libretto and video). (The video presentation of the opera is Monday Sept. 25 and Tuesday Sept. 26, at 7:00 p.m. in Psychology Auditorium)

Furet: The French Revolution, pp. 1-72.

Lecture on Magic Flute: Segel, Wed., Sept. 27

Lecture on French Revolution: Segel, Fri., Sept. 29

 

WEEK 6 (OCT. 2-6): REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS AND ART

Bryson: Word and Image, pp. 154-253.

Furet: French Revolution, pp. 72- 150.

Lecture on David: William Diebold, Mon., Oct. 2

Lecture on French Revolution: Mueller, Wed., Oct. 4

 

 

WEEK 7 (OCT. 9-13): SOURCES OF POLITICAL ORDER: REVOLUTIONARY REASON OR CONSERVATIVE HISTORY?

 

Walzer: Regicide and Revolution: pp. 1-21, 54-89, 120-138, 178-194, 219-233, 253-254.

Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France, Penguin edition pp. 119-141, 149-154, 163-177, 181-198.

Hay and Rogers: Eighteenth-Century Society, pp. 97-102, 110-113, 174-187.

Lecture on the Jacobins: Mueller, Mon., Oct. 9

Lecture on Burke: Segel, Wed., Oct. 11

 

--FALL BREAK&endash;

WEEKS 8 AND 9 (OCT. 23-NOV. 3): INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND ROMANTICISM

Hay and Rogers: pp. 114-133; 188-208.

Polanyi: The Great Transformation (selection in Humanities 220 pamphlet).

(recommended: R.R. Palmer and Joel Colton: History of the Modern World, sections 52 and 53 in chapter XI).

Blake: Your instructor will choose the readings, but you should look at: from Songs of Innocence: "The Chimney Sweeper," "Holy Thursday"; from Songs of Experience: "Holy Thursday," "The Chimney Sweeper," and "London"; The French Revolution.

Wordsworth: Your instructor will choose the readings, but you should look at: "The Ruined Cottage" (in Humanities 220 pamphlet), "The Female Vagrant," "Michael," "Resolution and Independence," "The Old Cumberland Beggar," "Lines Written in Early Spring," "The World is Too Much with Us," "Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802)," "Tintern Abbey."

Raymond Williams: "The Romantic Artist" (in Humanities 220 pamphlet).

Harold Bloom: "Prometheus Rising: The Backgrounds of Romantic Poetry" (in Humanities 220 pamphlet).

Barrell: "John Constable" (in Humanities 220 pamphlet and on reserve).

Lecture on Industrial Revolution: Segel, Mon., Oct. 23

Lecture on Blake: Porter, Wed., Oct 25.

Lecture on Wordsworth: Porter, Mon., Oct. 30

Lecture on Constable: William Diebold, Wed., Nov. 1

 

WEEKS 10, 11, AND 12 (NOV. 6-22): GERMAN ROMANTICISM: HEROISM AND PHILOSOPHY

Goethe: Faust, all of Part One; Prologue and Act V of Part II.

Blackbourn: The Long Nineteenth Century, pp. 47-57; 91-106.

Hegel: The Philosophy of Hegel, 43-79; (recommended: 399-410).

Tucker (ed.): The Marx Reader (Conference leaders will select readings).

Lecture on Faust: Porter, Mon., Nov. 6

Lecture on Beethoven: Segel, Wed., Nov. 8

Lecture on Hegel: Peter Steinberger, Mon., Nov. 13

Lecture on Marx: Peter Steinberger, Wed., Nov. 15

Lecture on Marx: Mueller, Mon., Nov. 17

 

-- THANKSGIVING BREAK --

WEEKS 13 AND 14 (NOV. 27-DEC.6): LIBERAL SOCIETY

Mill: On Liberty.

Bronte: Jane Eyre.

Panel on Mill: Segel, Mueller, Porter, Mon., Nov. 27

Lecture on Jane Eyre: Porter, Mon., Dec. 4