Texts for the course:

Humanities 220 Pamphlet

Peter Burke: The Fabrication of Louis XIV (Yale)

Defoe: Robinson Crusoe (Oxford)

Locke: Second Treatise of Government (Hackett)

O'Gorman: The Long Eighteenth Century (Oxford)

Darnton: The Great Cat Massacre (Random House)

Rousseau: Rousseau's Political Writings (Norton)

Kant: Perpetual Peace and Other Essays (Hackett)

Eisenman: Nineteenth Century Art (Norton)

Mozart: Three Mozart Libretti (Dover)

Censer and Hunt: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution (Penn State)

Edmund Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France (Penguin)

Walzer: Regicide and Revolution: Speeches at the Trial of Louis XVI (Columbia)

E.P Thompson: The Making of the English Working Class (Random House)

Blake: The Complete Poems (Columbia)

Wordsworth: Selected Poems (Penguin)

Goethe: Faust (Random House)

Marx: The Marx-Engels Reader (Norton)

Mill: On Liberty (Penguin)

Mill: Autobiography (Penguin)

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READING AND LECTURES

WEEK 1 (AUG. 27-AUG. 31): ABSOLUTISM AND THE OLD REGIME IN FRANCE

Peter Burke: The Fabrication of Louis XIV, pp. 1-69, 85-105, 125-133, 198-203

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

Lecture on Versailles and Court Art: Monday, Aug. 27 (Van Dyke)

Lecture on the Ancien Regime: Wednesday, Aug. 29 (Segel)

WEEK 2 (SEPT. 4-SEPT. 7): INTIMATIONS OF INDIVIDUALISM IN 18TH CENTURY FICTION

Defoe: Robinson Crusoe

Lecture on Robinson Crusoe: Friday, Sept. 7 (Porter) 

WEEK 3 (SEPT. 10-SEPT. 14): PROPERTY, WORK, AND POLITICS IN 18TH CENTURY ENGLAND

O'Gorman: The Long Eighteenth Century, pp. 1-36, 96-124, 171-174

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

Lecture on 18th Century English Politics and History: Monday, Sept. 10 (Segel)

Lecture on Locke: Wednesday, Sept. 12 (Garrett)

WEEK 4 (SEPT. 17-SEPT. 21): ENLIGHTENMENT CULTURE AND POLITICS

Diderot: "The Encyclopedia" (in Humanities 220 Pamphlet)

Darnton: The Great Cat Massacre, pp. 107-209

Rousseau: "Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men" (in Rousseau's Political Writings)

Lecture on Diderot's Encyclopedia: Monday, Sept. 17 (Smith)

WEEK 5 (SEPT. 24-SEPT. 28): ENLIGHTENMENT UTOPIAS

Rousseau: "Social Contract" (in Rousseau's Political Writings)

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

Lecture on Rousseau: Monday, Sept. 24 (Mueller)

Lecture on Kant: Wednesday, Sept. 26 (Garloff)

WEEK 6 (OCT. 1-OCT. 5): POWER CRITIQUED: INTIMATIONS OF REVOLUTION IN OPERA AND ART

Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro

Eisenman: Nineteenth Century Art, pp. 14-50

 

(There will be showings of the video of The Marriage of Figaro on Sunday, Sept. 30,

Monday, Oct. 1, and Tuesday, Oct. 2, each night at 7:00 in Psychology 105.)

 

Lecture on Mozart: Monday, Oct. 1 (Segel)

Lecture on David: Wednesday, Oct. 3 (Van Dyke)

WEEK 7 (OCT. 8-OCT. 12): THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

Censer and Hunt: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution, pp. 1-114

Lecture on The French Revolution-I: Monday, Oct. 8 (Segel)

Lecture on The French Revolution-II: Wednesday, Oct. 10 (Mueller)

WEEK 8 (OCT. 22-OCT. 26): RESISTANCE TO REVOLUTION AND REGICIDE

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

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

O'Gorman: The Long Eighteenth Century, pp. 233-234, 242-247, 266-273

Lecture on The Terror: Monday, Oct. 22 (Smith)

WEEKS 9-10 (OCT. 29-NOV. 9): INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND THE ROMANTIC RESPONSE

Thompson: The Making of the English Working Class, pp. 9-13, 189-212, 314-374, 711-746

Raymond Williams: "The Romantic Artist" (selection in the Humanities 220 Pamphlet)

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

Abrams: "English Romanticism: The Spirit of the Age" (selection in the Humanities 220 Pamphlet)

Wordsworth: Your instructor will choose the readings, but you should definitely read: "The Ruined Cottage" (in the 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," and "Tintern Abbey"

Eisenman: Nineteenth Century Art, pp. 115-143

Lecture on The Industrial Revolution: Monday, Oct. 29 (Segel)

Lecture on Blake: Wednesday, Oct. 31 (Porter)

Lecture on Wordsworth: Monday, Nov. 5 (Porter)

Lecture on Romantic Art: Wednesday, Nov. 7 (Van Dyke)

WEEK 11 (NOV. 12-NOV. 16): TITANIC SELFHOOD

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

Lecture on Faust: Monday, Nov. 12 (Porter)

Lecture on Beethoven: Wednesday, Nov. 14 (Segel)

WEEK 12 (NOV. 19-NOV. 21): MARX'S THEORY AND CRITIQUE

Marx: The Marx-Engels Reader (Your instructor will select the readings)

Lecture on Marx-I: Monday, Nov. 19 (Steinberger)

WEEK 13 [first half] (NOV. 26-NOV. 28): MARX'S THEORY AND CRITIQUE (continued)

Marx: The Marx-Engels Reader (Your instructor will choose the readings)

Lecture on Marx-II: Monday, Nov. 26 (Mueller)

WEEKS 13 [second half]-14 (NOV. 28-DEC. 5): LIBERALISM, SELF, AND SOCIETY

Mill: Autobiography, chapters 1-5

Mill: On Liberty

Lecture on Mill's Autobiography, Wednesday, Nov. 28 (Porter)

Lecture on Victorian Liberalism, Monday 3 (Segel)