Voltaire, Candide (Bedford)
Rousseau, Political Writings (Norton)
Kant, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals (Prentice-Hall)
McPhee, The French Revolution (Oxford)
Mason and Rizzo, eds., The French Revolution: A Document Collection (Houghton Mifflin)
Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (Penguin)
Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Penguin)
Wordsworth, Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)
Shelley, The Major Works (Oxford World’s Classics) ISBN: 0192813749
Goethe, Faust (Anchor)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein (Penguin) Ed. Maurice Hindle
E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (Vintage)
Marx-Engels Reader (Norton)
Dickens, Hard Times (Oxford World’s Classics)
Week 1 (8/28-9/1)
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Voltaire, Candide
Diderot, Encyclopédie (selected articles and plates, e-reserves/website)
Lectures:
M: Lecture on Voltaire (Hugh Hochman)
W: Lecture on the Encyclopédie (Jim van Dyke)
F: Lecture on Rousseau (Ben Lazier)
Week 2 (Labor Day -- 9/5-9/8)
Rousseau, Political Writings, selections by instructor
Week 3 (9/11-9/15)
Kant, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals
Lecture:
M: Lecture on Kant (Jan Mieszkowski)
Week 4 (9/18-9/22)
McPhee, The French Revolution, pp. 1-108 (Intro and Chaps. 1-5).
Mason and Rizzo, The French Revolution: A Document Collection, selections by instructor
Lectures:
M: Lecture on the Revolution of 1789 (Ed Segel)
W: Lecture on the Revolution in 1792 (Michael Breen)
Week 5 (9/26-9/29)
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, pp. 119-141, 149-154, 163-177, 181-198.
Thomas Paine, selections from The Rights of Man (e-reserves)
Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Woman, “Author’s Introduction,” “Dedication,” Chapters 1 – 3
Lecture:
M: Lecture on Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine and Mary Wollstonecraft (Ed Segel)
Week 6 (10/3-10/6)
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Denis Diderot, selections from the “Salon of 1763,” the “Salon of 1765,” “Notes on Painting,” and the “Salon of 1767” (e-reserves)
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) (e-reserves)
Recommended: Thomas E. Crow, Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris, 1-5, 211-258 (main reserves)
Lectures:
M: Lecture on 18th-Century French Painting and Politics (Jim van Dyke)
Week 7 (10/9-10/13)
McPhee, The French Revolution, pp. 109-204 (Chaps. 6-9).
Mason and Rizzo, The French Revolution: A Document Collection selections by instructor
Maximilien Robespierre, “On the Principles of Political Morality” (February 5, 1794)
(e-reserves)
François Furet, “Terror” (e-reserves)
Lecture:
M: Lecture on the Jacobins and Revolutionary Violence (Brian Kassof)
Week 8 (10/23-10/27)
Wordsworth, Selected Poems
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."
Shelley, The Major Works, selections by instructor
Bloom, “Prometheus Rising: The Backgrounds of Romantic Poetry” (e-reserves)
Raymond Williams, “The Romantic Artist” (e-reserves)
Lectures:
M: Lecture on Romanticism (Jan Mieszkowski)
W: Lecture on Wordsworth and Shelley (Roger Porter)
Week 9 (10/30-11/3)
Goethe, Faust: Part One (selections by instructor); Part Two (Prologue and Act V)
Lecture:
M: Lecture on Faust (Roger Porter)
W: Lecture on Beethovan (Ed Segel)
Week 10 (11/6-11/10)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
Lecture:
M: Lecture on Frankenstein (Roger Porter)
Week 11 (11/13-11/17)
Bowditch and Ramsland, Voices of the Industrial Revolution, pp. 12-69. (selections from Adam Smith and Jeremy Bentham)
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)
Lecture:
M: Lecture on the Intellectual Foundations of the Industrial Revolution (Ed Segel)
Week 12 (Thanksgiving – 11/20-11/22)
Marx, Marx-Engels Reader, selections by instructor
Lecture:
M: Lecture on Marx’s Philosophy (Peter Steinberger)
Week 13 (11/27-12/1)
Marx, Marx-Engels Reader, selections by instructor
Dickens, Hard Times, first half
Lecture:
M: Lecture on Marx (Ben Lazier)
W: Lecture on Dickens (Roger Porter)
Week 14 (12/4-12/6)
Dickens, Hard Times, second half