Texts for the course:

Hay and Rogers, Eighteeenth-Century English Society (Oxford)
Locke, Second Treatise on Government (Hackett)
Pope, Essay on Man ( Dover)
Burke, The Fabrication of Louis XIV (Yale)
Voltaire, Letters on England (Penguin)
Darnton, The Great Cat Massacre (Vintage)
Rousseau, Rousseau's Political Writings (Norton)
Kant, Perpetual Peace and Other Essays (Hackett)
Mozart, Don Giovanni (Riverrun)
Crow, Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris (Yale)
McPhee, The French Revolution (Oxford)
Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (Penguin)
Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (Random House)
Blake, The Complete Poems (Penguin)
Wordsworth, Selected Poems (Penguin)
Goethe, Faust (Anchor Doubleday)
Marx, The Marx-Engels Reader (Norton)
Flaubert, Madame Bovary (Penguin)

Readings and Lectures

WEEK 1 (SEPT. 2-5): EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND: AN OLD REGIME?

Douglas Hay and Nicholas Rogers: Eighteenth-Century English Society, pp. vi-ix, 1-70, 85-96.

Lecture on Society, Culture, and the Enlightenment: Wednesday, Sept. 3 (Mueller)

Lecture on English Politics: Friday, Sept. 5 (Segel)

WEEK 2 (SEPT. 8-12): THE ENGLISH ENLIGHTENMENT

Pope: Essay on Man, Epistles I-II.

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

Lecture on Pope: Monday, Sept. 8 (Porter)

Lecture on Locke: Wednesday, Sept. 10 (Garrett)

WEEK 3 (SEPT. 15-19): ANCIEN RÉGIME AND ENLIGHTENMENT

Peter Burke: The Fabrication of Louis XIV, pp. 1-37, 49-69, 85-97, 102-105, 125-133, 198-203.

Montesquieu: The Spirit of the Laws, Book 2, chapters 3-4 (pp. 15-19); Book 3, chapters 1-11 (pp. 21-30); Book 8, chapters 1-10 (pp. 112-119); Book 11, chapters 1-6 (pp. 154-166); Book 14, chapters 1-2 (pp. 231-234) (Pamphlet)

Voltaire: Letters on England, chapters 1, 5 ,8, 10, 13, 14, 20, 24, 25 (preface to letter 25 plus sections 1-3, 6 ,11).

Lecture on the Palace at Versailles: Monday, Sept. 15 (Van Dyke)

Lecture on Montesquieu and Voltaire: Wednesday, Sept. 17 (Segel)

WEEK 4 (SEPT. 22-26): ENLIGHTENMENT AND SENSIBILITÉ

Diderot: "The Encyclopedia" (Pamphlet).

Diderot: from The Encyclopedia : "Fanaticism," "Intolerance," "Jew," "Men of Letters," "Natural Equality," "Observation" (Pamphlet).

Diderot: Plates from The Encyclopedia (Pamphlet).

Robert Darnton: "Philosophers Trim the Tree of Knowledge: The Epistemological Strategy of the Encyclopédie," in The Great Cat Massacre.

Rousseau: "Discourse on the Origins and Foundations of Inequality Among Men," in Rousseau's Political Writings.

Lecture on Diderot and the French Enlightenment: Monday, Sept. 22 (Van Dyke)

Lecture on Rousseau's "Discourse on . . . Inequality": Wednesday, Sept. 24 (Mueller)

WEEK 5 (SEPT. 29-OCT. 3): 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.

Robert Wuthnow: "Enlightenment Development in Prussia and Scotland," pp. 228-251 from Communities of Discourse (Pamphlet).

Lecture on Rousseau's "Social Contract": Monday, Sept. 29 (Mueller)

Lecture on Kant: Wednesday, Oct. 1 (Garloff)

WEEK 6 (OCT. 6-10): AUTHORITY AND VIRTUE IN MUSIC AND ART

Mozart: Don Giovanni.

(There will be showings of a video of Don Giovanni on Sunday, Oct. 5 at 3:00 P.M. and 7:00 P.M., Monday, Oct. 6, and Tuesday, Oct. 7--each night at 7:00 in Psychology 105.)

Thomas Crow: Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris, pp. 1-22, 45-74,

Lecture on Mozart: Monday, Oct. 6 (Segel)

WEEK 7 (OCT. 13-17): THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

Crow: Painters and Public Life, pp. 175-258.

Peter McPhee: The French Revolution, Preface, chapters 1-4.

Lecture on David and the French Revolution: Monday, Oct. 13 (Van Dyke)

Lecture on the French Revolution I: Wednesday, Oct. 15 (Segel)

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WEEK 8 (OCT. 27-31): RADICAL DEMOCRACY AND ITS CRITICS

McPhee: French Revolution, chapters 5-7.

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

Hay and Rogers: Eighteenth-Century English Society, pp. 174-187, chapter 12.

Paine: from The Rights of Man (Pamphlet).

Lecture on the French Revolution II: Wednesday, Oct. 27 (Mueller)

Lecture on Burke and Paine: Monday, Oct. 29 (Segel)

WEEK 9 (NOV. 3-7): DEBATING TWO REVOLUTIONS

McPhee: French Revolution, chapter 9.

François Furet: "The French Revolution Revisited" (Pamphlet).

Eric Hobsbawm: "The Making of a 'Bourgeois Revolution'" (Pamphlet).

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

Lecture on Interpretations of the Revolution: Monday, Nov. 3 (Mueller)

Lecture on The Industrial Revolution: Wednesday, Nov. 5 (Segel)

WEEK 10 (NOV. 10-14): ROMANTIC POETRY - THE WORLD AND THE 'I'

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

Wordsworth: Your instructor will choose the readings, but you should read: "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," and "Intimations of Immortality."

Lecture on Blake: Monday, Nov. 10 (Mirabile)

Lecture on Wordsworth, Wednesday, Nov. 12 (Hochman)

WEEK 11 (NOV. 17-21): TITANIC INDIVIDUALISM

Goethe: Faust Part One (Your instructor will assign selections); Prologue and Act V from Part Two.

Lecture on Faust: Monday, Nov. 17 (Garloff)

Lecture on Beethoven: Wednesday, Nov. 19 (Segel)

WEEK 12 (NOV. 24-26): MARX'S SYNTHETIC CRITIQUE

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

Lecture on Marx I: Monday, Nov. 24 (Steinberger)

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WEEK 13 (DEC. 1-5): CAPITALISM IN PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE

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

Flaubert: Madame Bovary.

Lecture on Marx II: Monday, Dec. 1 (Mueller)

WEEK 14 (DEC. 8-10): CRITIQUE OF BOURGEOIS LIFE

Flaubert: Madame Bovary.

Lecture on Flaubert: Monday, Dec. 8 (Khan)

Your instructor will inform you of the number, length, and subject matter of papers, and of any other assignments for your section, such as class reports, exams, etc.