(available for purchase in college bookstore)
Voltaire, Candide (Bedford)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Marriage of Figaro (Riverrun)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Political Writings (Norton)
Peter McPhee, The French Revolution, 1789-1799 (Oxford)
Laura Mason and Tracey Rizzo (eds.), The French Revolution: A Document Collection (Houghton Mifflin)
Lynn Hunt, Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution (U Cal Press)
Hubert Wellington (ed.), The Journal of Eugène Delacroix (Phaidon)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Sorrows of Young Werther (Penguin Classics)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions (Oxford World’s Classics)
William Wordsworth, Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (Vintage)
Robert Tucker, Marx-Engels Reader (Norton)
Charles Dickens, Hard Times (Oxford World’s Classics)
Hum 220 pamphlet
THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE CRITICAL INTELLECTUAL
Week 1 (8/29- 9/2): Undermining Tradition
Voltaire, Candide
Voltaire, selected entries from the Philosophical Dictionary (pamphlet)M: Lecture on the Old Regime (Ed Segel)
W: Lecture on Voltaire and the Enlightenment (Hugh Hochman)
F: Lecture on the Encyclopedia and Salon Culture (Jim van Dyke)Week 2 (9/5-9/9 – Labor Day holiday on Monday): Knowledge and Power
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Diderot, selections from the Encyclopedia (pamphlet)
Mozart, The Marriage of FigaroMarriage of Figaro screenings
Monday, 9/5: 7 pm, Psych 105
Tuesday, 9/6, 7 pm, Psych 105W: Lecture on Mozart (Ed Segel)
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND THE CITIZEN
Week 3 (9/12-9/16): Political Ideals and the Critique of Privilege
Rousseau, “On Social Contract,” in: Rousseau’s Political Writings, Book I (all); Book II (all); Book III - chapters;
1-3, 8-18; Book IV - chapters 1, 2, 8.
McPhee, The French Revolution 1789-1799, Introduction, chapters 1-4.
Mason and Rizzo, The French Revolution: A Documentary Collection, pp. 24-32, 42-87, 89-124M: Lecture on Rousseau (Ben Lazier)
W: Lecture on the French Revolution (Ed Segel)Week 4 (9/19-9/23): Revolutionary Society and its Limits
Hunt, Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution, pp. 1-86.
Mason and Rizzo, pp. 105-220.
Caine, “Women,” (e-reserves)M: Lecture on the French Revolution and French Society (Michael Breen)
Week 5 (9/26-9/30): Revolutionary Art
Jacques-Louis David, “on his picture of Le Peletier” (1793), “The Jury of Art” (1793), “Proposal for a monument
to the French people” (1793), and “Project for the apotheoses of Barra and Viala” (1794) (pamphlet)
Thomas E. Crow, Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris, 1-5, 211-258 (main reserves)
Hunt, pp. 87-119Study carefully the images on the Hum 220 website!
M: Lecture on late 18th-Century French Painting (Jim van Dyke)
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W: Lecture on Caricature and Print Culture (Jim van Dyke)
View images for this lecture.Week 6 (10/3-10/7): Revolutionary Violence
McPhee, chapters 5-9.
Mason and Rizzo, pp. 221-254, 258-279.
Maximilien Robespierre, “On the Principles of Political Morality” (February 5, 1794) (pamphlet)
François Furet, “Terror” (e-reserves)
Timothy Tackett, “Conspiracy Obsession in a Time of Revolution…” (e-reserves)M: Lecture on Revolutionary Violence and the Terror (Christine Mueller)
THE ROMANTIC REVOLUTION AND THE INDIVIDUAL
Week 7 (10/10-10/14): Painting, Politics, and Fantasy
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Delacroix, The Journal of Eugène Delacroix:
Sept. 12, 1822-June 9, 1823; March 31, 1824-June 6, 1824; May 22, 1847-June 9, 1847; Sept. 5, 1847; April 23, 1849; Feb. 14, 1850-Feb. 19, 1850; May 1, 1850-May 14, 1850; July 14, 1850-July 21, 1850; Oct. 2, 1852-Nov. 1, 1852; April 20, 1853; Oct. 10, 1853-Oct. 17, 1853; April 28, 1854; July 1, 1854-July 19, 1854; Aug. 25, 1854-Aug. 27, 1854; Sept. 21, 1854-Sept. 23, 1854; Aug. 15, 1855; Sept. 25, 1855-Oct. 10, 1855; January 13, 1857; Dec. 20, 1857; Sept. 1, 1859; Feb. 22, 1860; Jan. 1, 1861-Jan. 12, 1861Charles Baudelaire, “The Salon of 1846”, in The Mirror of Art, pp. 39-69 (main reserves)
Study carefully the images on the Hum 220 website!
M: Lecture on Romantic Painting (Jim van Dyke)
W: Lecture on Beethoven (Ed Segel)
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Week 8 (10/24-10/28): Sensibility and Subjectivity
Goethe, Sorrows of Young Werther
Rousseau, Confessions, Books 1-2.
Kitson, “Beyond Enlightenment: The Philosophical, Scientific, and Religious Inheritance” (e-reserves)M: Lecture on Goethe and the Sturm und Drang (Ben Lazier)
W: Lecture on Rousseau (Roger Porter)Week 9 (10/31-11/4): Nature, Civilization, and Reflection
Wordsworth, Selected Poems (your instructor will specify)
Duff, “From Revolution to Romanticism: The Historical Context to 1800” (e-reserves)
Bloom, “Prometheus Rising: The Backgrounds of Romantic Poetry” (e-reserves)
Raymond Williams, “The Romantic Artist” (e-reserves)M: Lecture on Wordsworth (Hugh Hochman)
Week 10 (11/7-11/11): Love and Society
Brontë, Jane EyreW: Lecture on Jane Eyre (Roger Porter)
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND THE WORKER
Week 11 (11/14-11/18): Economic Theory and Social Experience
John Bowditch and Clement Ramsland, eds., Voices of the Industrial
Revolution, selections tba (main reserves)
E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class, pp. 9-13, 189-212, 314-374, 711-746.
Joan Wallach Scott, “Women in The Making of the English Working Class” (e-reserves)
Yeo, “Class,” (e-reserves)M: Lecture on Adam Smith (Maureen Harkin)
W: Lecture on the Industrial Revolution (Ed Segel)Week 12 (11/21-11/25, Thanksgiving holiday, no classes Thursday/Friday): The Critique of Capitalism: Theory
The Marx-Engels Reader (your instructor will specify)M: Lecture on Marx (Peter Steinberger)
Week 13 (11/28-12/2): The Critique of Capitalism: Theory and Fiction
The Marx-Engels Reader, cont. (your instructor will specify)
Dickens, Hard Times, first half
Stevenson, “Industrialism” (e-reserves)W: Lecture on Dickens (Roger Porter)
Week 14 (12/5-12/6): The Critique of Capitalism: Fiction
Dickens, Hard Times, second half