Fall, 1997

Texts are in order of use:

Voltaire, Candide (Penguin)
Readings on Modern Humanities (Pamphlet/Bookstore)
Locke, Second Treatise (Hackett)
Rousseau, Political Writings (Norton)
Rousseau, Confessions (Penguin)
Fried, Absorption and Theatricality (Chicago)
Baxandall, Patterns of Intention (Yale UP)
Diderot, Rameau's Nephew (Penguin)
Mozart, Don Giovanni (Riverrun)
Popkin, Short History of the French Revolution (Prentice Hall)
Hunt, Politics, Culture and Class in the French Revolution (UC)
Burke, Reflections on the French Revolution (Penguin)
Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Penguin)
Crow, Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth Century Paris (Yale UP)
Barrell, Dark Side of Landscape (Cambridge)
Wordsworth, Selected Poems (Houghton Mifflin)
Bronte, Jane Eyre (Penguin)
E.P. Thompson, Making of the English Working Class (Random House)
Mill, On Liberty (Penguin)
Goethe, Faust, Part I, Peter Salm, transl., (Bantam)
Goethe, Faust, Part II, any edition
Hegel, Philosophy of Hegel (Modern Library)

WEEK 1 (SEPT. 2-5): ENLIGHTENMENT RATIONALISM AND OPTIMISM

Voltaire: Candide

Diderot: "The Encyclopedia," in Readings on Modern Humanities

Lecture on Voltaire: Rachel Shuh, Wed. Sept. 3.

WEEK 2 (SEPT. 8-12): THEORIES OF LEGITIMACY AND POWER FROM  ABSOLUTISM TO DEMOCRACY

Locke: Second Treatise

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

Lecture on Locke: David Sacks, Mon. Sept. 8.

WEEK 3 (SEPT. 15-19): ROUSSEAU, POLITICAL AND PERSONAL

Rousseau: "On Social Contract or Principles of Political Right," in Rousseau's Political Writings

Rousseau: The Confessions, Books 1-2

Lecture on "The Social Contract": Christine Mueller, Mon. Sept. 15.
Lecture on The Confessions: Roger Porter, Wed., Sept. 17.

WEEK 4 (SEPT. 22-26): THE PAINTING OF THE ANCIEN REGIME: FROM  FANTASY TO VIRTUE

Fried: Absorption and Theatricality, pp. 1-70, 107-160

Baxandall: Patterns of Intention, pp. 1-11, 74-104

Lecture on 18th Century Art: William Diebold, Mon., Sept. 22.

WEEK 5 (SEPT. 29-OCT. 3): SUBVERSIVE VOICES IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT

Diderot: Rameau's Nephew
(Optional: De Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom, in Readings in Modern Humanities)

Mozart: Don Giovanni (the libretto). (The video presentation of the opera is Sun., Sept. 28 and Mon., Sept. 29, at 7:30 p.m., in the Psychology Auditorium)

Lecture on Diderot and De Sade: Rachel Shuh, Mon., Sept. 29.
Lecture on Mozart: Edward Segel, Wed., Oct. 1.

WEEK 6 (OCT. 6-10): THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: POLITICS AND

REPRESENTATIONS

Popkin: A Short History of the French Revolution, pp. 1-83, 127-142, 152-154
(recommended, pp. 84-126)

Hunt: Politics, Culture and Class in the French Revolution, pp. 1-119

Lecture on the French Revolution: Edward Segel, Mon., Oct. 6.

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

Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France, pp. 119-214

Wollstonecraft: Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Author's Introduction, Dedication,
Chapters 1, 2, 3

Paulson: Representations of Revolution, 1789-1820, pp. 57-87 ("Burke, Paine, and Wollstonecraft: The Sublime and the Beautiful") (reserve only)

Lecture on Burke: Edward Segel, Mon. Oct. 13.
Lecture on Wollstonecraft: Lena Lencek, Wed., Oct. 15.

-- FALL RECESS --

WEEK 8 (OCT. 27-31): THE VISUAL LANGUAGE OF REVOLUTION

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

Paulson: Representations of Revolution 1789-1820, pp. 1-36 ("Introduction: The French Revolution and the Neroclassical Style") and pp. 286-343 (from "Goya and the Spanish Revolution") (reserve only)

Lecture on Revolutionary Art: William Diebold, Mon., Oct. 27.

WEEK 9 (NOV. 3-7): ROMANTIC LANDSCAPE AND ROMANTIC SELF

Wordsworth: The Prelude, Books 1-3, in Selected Poems

Barrell: The Dark Side of the Landscape, pp. 131-164

Lecture on Wordsworth: Roger Porter, Mon., Nov. 3.
Lecture on Barrell and landscape painting: William Diebold, Wed., Nov. 5.

WEEK 10 (NOV. 10-14): THE ROMANTIC NOVEL

Bronte: Jane Eyre

Lecture on Bronte: Roger Porter, Wed. Nov. 12.

WEEK 11 (NOV. 17-21): PROGRESS AND MECHANISM IN VICTORIAN  SOCIETY AND THOUGHT

Thompson: The Making of the English Working Class: Preface, Chapters 6, 10, pp. 350-374 in Chapter 11, and pp. 401-417 in Chapter 12

Mill: On Liberty

Lecture on the Industrial Revolution: Edward Segel, Mon., Nov. 17.

WEEK 12 (NOV. 24-26): HEROIC SELF-CREATION

Goethe: Faust Part I

Lecture on Goethe: Roger Porter, Mon., Nov. 24.

-- THANKSGIVING RECESS --

WEEK 13 (DEC. 1-5): HISTORY AS PROGRESS

Goethe: Faust Part I (continued); Faust Part II, Act I Prologue, Act 5 (entire)

Hegel: Philosophy of Hegel, pp. 4-35, 43-79

Lecture on Beethoven: Edward Segel, Mon., Dec. 1.
Lecture on Hegel: Peter Steinberger, Wed., Dec. 3.

WEEK 14 (DEC. 8-10): HISTORY AS PROGRESS (continued)

Hegel (continued)