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)
Mozart, Don Giovanni (Dover)
Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Penguin)
Wordsworth, Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)
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 (8/27-8/31)
Voltaire, Candide
Diderot, Encyclopédie (selected articles and plates, e-reserves/website)
Lectures:
M: Lecture on Voltaire (Hugh Hochman)
W: Lecture on the Enlightenment (Joel Revill)
F: Lecture on Rousseau (Christine Mueller)
Week 2 (Labor Day – 9/4-9/7)
Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men, On Social Contract
Week 3 (9/10-9/14)
Kant, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals
Lecture:
M: Lecture on Kant (Jan Mieszkowski)
Week 4 (9/17-9/21)
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 (Brian Kassof)
Week 5 (9/24-9/28)
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 and Thomas Paine (Ed Segel)
W: Lecture on Mary Wollstonecraft (Lena Lencek)
Week 6 (10/1-10/5)
Mozart, Don Giovanni
T. J. Clark, “Painting in the Year 2” (e-reserves) (Images: https://cdm.reed.edu/cdm4/gallery.php?gallery=276)
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)
Lectures:
M: Lecture on Don Giovanni (Ed Segel)
W: Lecture on Jacques-Louis David and Revolution (William Diebold)
Week 7 (10/8-10/12)
McPhee, The French Revolution, pp. 109-204 (Chaps. 6-9).
Mason and Rizzo, The French Revolution: A Document Collection selections by instructor
François Furet, “Terror” (e-reserves)
Timothy Tackett, “Conspiracy Obsession in a Time of Revolution” (e-reserves)
Lecture:
M: Lecture on the Jacobins and Revolutionary Violence (Brian Kassof)
Week 8 (10/22-10/26)
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."
Raymond Williams, “The Romantic Artist” (e-reserves)
Lectures:
M: Lecture on Wordsworth and Romanticism (Hugh Hochman)
Week 9 (10/29-11/2)
Goethe, Faust: Part One (selections by instructor); Part Two (Prologue and Act V)
Lecture:
M: Lecture on Faust (Katja Garloff)
W: Lecture on Beethoven (Ed Segel)
Week 10 (11/5-11/9)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
Lecture:
M: Lecture on Frankenstein (Lena Lencek)
Week 11 (11/12-11/16)
Bowditch and Ramsland, Voices of the Industrial Revolution, pp. 12-69 (selections from Adam Smith and Jeremy Bentham) (e-reserves)
E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class, pp. 9-13, 189-212, 314-374, 711-746.
Lecture:
M: Lecture on the Intellectual Foundations of the Industrial Revolution (Ed Segel)
Week 12 (Thanksgiving – 11/19-11/21)
Marx, Marx-Engels Reader, selections by instructor
Lecture:
M: Lecture on Marx’s Philosophy (Peter Steinberger)
Week 13 (11/26-11/30)
Marx, Marx-Engels Reader, selections by instructor
Dickens, Hard Times, first half
Lecture:
M: Lecture on Marx and 1848 (Brian Kassof)
Week 14 (12/3-12/5)
Dickens, Hard Times, second half
Lecture:
M: Lecture on Dickens (Roger Porter)