HUMANITIES 220 SYLLABUS -- FALL 2004

Texts for the course:

Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (Oxford)

Hay and Rogers, Eighteeenth-Century English Society (Oxford)

Locke, Second Treatise on Government (Hackett)

Burke, The Fabrication of Louis XIV (Yale)

Voltaire, Letters on England (Penguin)

Crow, Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris (Yale)

Darnton, The Great Cat Massacre (Vintage)

Rousseau, Rousseau’s Political Writings (Norton)

Mozart, Marriage of Figaro (Riverrun)

McPhee, The French Revolution (Oxford)

Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (Penguin)

Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (Random House)

Wordsworth, Selected Poems (Penguin)

Goethe, Faust (Anchor Doubleday)

Marx, The Marx-Engels Reader (Norton)

Flaubert, Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)

Pamphlet

Reading Schedule:

WEEK 1 (August 30-Sept. 3): ENVISIONING A NEW WORLD

Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe

M: Ed Segel on 17^th/18^th century England

W: Roger Porter on Robinson Crusoe

WEEK 2 (SEPT. 6-10 - Labor Day week): ANCIEN RÉGIME AND ENLIGHTENMENT

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

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

W: David Garrett on Locke

WEEK 3 (SEPT. 13-17): ABSOLUTISM AND ARISTOCRATIC DISSIDENCE

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).

M: Jim van Dyke on Versailles

W: Ed Segel on Montesquieu and Voltaire

WEEK 4 (SEPT. 20-24): SALON CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION CRITIQUE

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

Rousseau: “Discourse on the Origins and Foundations of Inequality Among Men,” in Rousseau’s Political Writings.

M: Jim van Dyke on mid-18^th century French Painting

W: Eliza Ferguson on Rousseau

WEEK 5 (SEPT. 27-OCT. 1): ENLIGHTENMENT UTOPIAS

Rousseau: “Social Contract,” in Rousseau’s Political Writings.

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.

M: Christine Mueller on Rousseau’s “Social Contract”

W: Jim van Dyke on The Encyclopedia

WEEK 6 (OCT. 4-8): PRE-REVOLUTIONARY CULTURE

Mozart: Marriage of Figaro.

Thomas Crow: Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris, pp. 211-258.

M: Ed Segel on Mozart

W: Jim van Dyke on Jacques-Louis David

WEEK 7 (OCT. 11-15): THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

Peter McPhee: The French Revolution, Preface, chapters 1-7.

“Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen” (Web)

“Declaration of the Rights of Woman” (Web)

These two crucial documents can be found at the Web site connected to the book "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution," by Jack R. Censer and Lynn Hunt:

http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/

The URL

http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/searchfr.php?function=find&keyword=Rights+of+Man+and+the+Citizen

includes the "Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen" as the ninth document on that Web page. Further down, about twenty documents, is the"Declaration of the Rights of Woman" by Olympe de Gouges. Or else begin at the URL

http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/

and search for the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, and for Olympe de Gouges.

Speeches from the trial of Louis XVI, and two recent commentaries in Michael Walzer, Regicide and Revolution, pp. 120-138, 178-194, 217-254 (Pamphlet).

M: Ed Segel on the French Revolution

W: Christine Mueller on the French Revolution

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WEEK 8 (OCT. 25-29): THE ENGLISH DEBATE: HISTORY VS. DEMOCRACY

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

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

Paine: from The Rights of Man (Pamphlet).

M: Ed Segel on Burke and Paine

WEEK 9 (NOV. 1-5): INTERPRETING THE FRENCH AND INDUSTRIAL 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.

M: Eliza Ferguson on the Interpretation of the French Revolution

W: Ed Segel on the Industrial Revolution

WEEK 10 (NOV. 8-12): ENGLISH ROMANTICISM

Raymond Williams, “The Romantic Artist” (Pamphlet).

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."

John Barrell, The Dark Side of the Landscape, pp. 131-164 (Pamphlet).

M: Hugh Hochman on Wordsworth/Romantic Poetry

W: Jim van Dyke on Constable’s Realism

WEEK 11 (NOV. 15-19): TITANIC INDIVIDUALISM

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

M: Roger Porter on Faust

W: Ed Segel on Beethoven

WEEK 12 (NOV. 22-24-Thanksgiving Week): THE CRITIQUE OF BOURGEOIS SOCIETY

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

M: Peter Steinberger on Marx

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WEEK 13 (NOV. 29-DEC.3): CRITICAL REALISM

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

Flaubert: Madame Bovary

M: Michael Mirabile on Marx

W: Hugh Hochman on Madame Bovary

WEEK 14 (DEC. 6-8):

Flaubert: Madame Bovary