Texts in order of use:

Peter Burke: The Fabrication of Louis XIV (Yale)
Popkin: A Short History of the French Revolution (Prentice Hall)
Lefebvre: The Origins of the French Revolution (Princeton)
Darnton: The Great Cat Massacre (Vintage)
Rousseau: Rousseau's Political Writings (Norton)
Goodman: The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment (Cornell)
Mozart: The Magic Flute (Calder)
Crow: Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth Century Paris (Yale)
Hunt: Politics, Culture and Class in the French Revolution (California)
Walzer: Regicide and Revolution (Columbia)
Weiss: The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of The Marquis de Sade [Marat/Sade] (Atheneum)
Goya: The Disasters of War (Dover)
Butler: Burke, Paine, Godwin and the Revolution Controversy (Cambridge)
Blake: The Complete Poems (Penguin)
Barrell: The Dark Side of the Landscape (Cambridge)
Wordsworth: Selected Poems (Penguin)
Goethe: Faust Part I (Bantam)
Goethe: Faust Part II (World's Classics)
Hegel: The Philosophy of Hegel (Modern Library)
Stendhal: The Red and the Black (Everyman)

WEEK 1 (AUG. 31-SEPT. 4): THE ANCIEN RÉGIME

Peter Burke: The Fabrication of Louis XIV
St.-Simon: The Age of Magnificence: The Memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon (Humanities pamphlet)
Lecture on Louis XIV: Ray Kierstead, Mon. Aug. 31

WEEK 2 (Sept. 8-11): THE BOURGEOISIE AND THE ORIGINS OF THE REVOLUTION

Popkin: A Short History of the French Revolution, pp. 1-51 (required background reading, not for class discussion)
Lefebvre: The Origins of the French Revolution, pp. 7-20, 41-50, 68-75, 98-109, 131-146, 169-181, 209-223
Darnton: The Great Cat Massacre, pp. 75-143
Lecture on The French Revolution: Ed Segel, Wed., Sept. 9

WEEK 3 (SEPT. 14-18): ENLIGHTENMENT AND SUBVERSION

Diderot: "The Encyclopedia" (Humanities pamphlet)
Entries from Diderot's Encyclopedia + several plates (Humanities pamphlet)
Darnton: The Great Cat Massacre, pp. 191-213
Sade: selections from The 120 Days of Sodom and Philosophy of the Bedroom (Humanities pamphlet)
Lecture on Diderot and Sade: Derek Schilling, Wed., Sept. 16

WEEK 4 (SEPT. 21-25): ROUSSEAU AND ENLIGHTENMENT POLITICS

Rousseau: Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men
Rousseau: On Social Contract: Book I, Book II, Book III (chpts. 1-3, 8-18), Book I (chpts. 1-2, 8)
Lecture on Rousseau: Christine Mueller, Mon., Sept. 21
Lecture on Rousseau: Darius Rejali, Wed., Sept. 23

WEEK 5 (SEPT. 28-OCT. 2): ENLIGHTENMENT: SALON AND STAGE

Goodman: The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment, pp. 1-11, 12-89
Mozart: The Magic Flute (libretto and video). (The video presentation of the opera is Monday, Sept. 28 and Tuesday, Sept. 29, at 7:00, in Psychology Auditorium)
Lecture on Enlightenment Social History: Scott Smith, Mon., Sept. 28
Lecture on The Magic Flute: Ed Segel, Wed., Sept. 30

WEEK 6 (OCT. 5-9): EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ART: FROM COURT TO REVOLUTION

Crow: Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris, pp. 1-22, 134-174, 211-258
Lecture on Pre-Revolutionary Art: William Diebold, Mon., Oct. 5
Lecture on David: William Diebold, Wed., Oct. 7

WEEK 7 (OCT. 12-16): THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: REPRESENTATION, REGICIDE

Hunt: Politics, Culture and Class in the French Revolution, pp. 1-51, 87-119
Walzer: Regicide and Revolution, pp. 1-21, 35-49, 53-89, 110-138, 178-208, 215-216, 219-233
Lecture on The French Revolution: Promise & Terror: Scott Smith, Mon., Oct. 12

--FALL BREAK--

WEEK 8 (OCT. 26-30): THE REVOLUTIONARY AFTERMATH: DISILLUSIONMENT

Popkin: A Short History of the French Revolution, pp. 52-83, 127-142 (required background reading, not for class discussion)
Weiss: Marat/Sade (text and video) (The film will be shown Sunday, Oct. 25 and Monday, Oct. 26, at 7:00 in Psychology Auditorium)
Goya: The Disasters of War
Licht: "The Second and Third of May" and "The Disasters of War," from Goya: The Origins of the Modern Temper in Art (Humanities pamphlet)
Panel on Marat/Sade: Roger Porter and Derek Schilling, Mon., Oct. 26
Lecture on Goya: William Diebold, Wed., Oct. 28

WEEK 9 (NOV. 2-6): BRITISH RESPONSES TO THE REVOLUTION: SOCIAL

PHILOSOPHY AND POETRY

Burke, Paine, Godwin, and the Revolution Controversy, ed. Marilyn Butler, pp. 23-79, 83-89,107-128, 149-178, 224-232
Blake: From Songs of Innocence: "The Chimney Sweeper," "Holy Thursday"; from Songs of Experience: "Holy Thursday," "The Chimney Sweeper," and "London"; The French Revolution; The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Raymond Williams: "The Romantic Artist" (Humanities pamphlet)
Harold Bloom: "Prometheus Rising: The Backgrounds of Romantic Poetry" (Humanities pamphlet)
Lecture on Burke, Paine et. al.: Ed Segel, Mon., Nov. 2
Lecture on Blake: Roger Porter, Wed., Nov. 4

WEEK 10 (NOV. 9-13): WORDSWORTH AND ROMANTICISM

John Barrell: The Dark Side of the Landscape, pp. 131-164
Wordsworth: "The Ruined Cottage" (Humanities pamphlet), "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)"
Wordsworth: excerpt from The Prelude (1850 edition). Pp. 374-407 in Wordsworth Selected Poems, Penguin edition; or, if you are using a different reprint of the 1850 edition, the following book and line numbers:
VII, 52-76, 333-376, 485-543, 594-743
VIII, 1-75, 215-356, 676-686
IX, 1-133, 188-197, 215-262, 288-339, 509-532
X, 48-93, 146-154, 221-236, 263-299, 356-415, 562-603
XI, 105-244, 270-309, 333-363
M.H. Abrams: "The Spirit of the Age" (Humanities pamphlet)
Lecture on Romantic Art: William Diebold, Mon., Nov. 9
Lecture on Wordsworth, Roger Porter, Wed., Nov. 11

WEEK 11 (NOV. 16-20): FAUST AND ROMANTIC HEROISM

Goethe: Faust, all of Part One; Prologue and Act V of Part II
Lecture on Beethoven: Ed Segel, Mon., Nov. 16
Lecture on Faust Roger Porter, Wed., Nov. 18

WEEK 12 (NOV. 23-25): ROMANTIC HISTORY

Hegel: The Philosophy of Hegel: "The Philosophy of History," pp. 4-42, 53-69, 74-84, 141-158
Steven Smith: "Hegel and the French Revolution" (Humanities pamphlet)
Lecture on Hegel: Peter Steinberger, Mon., Nov. 23

-THANKSGIVING BREAK-

WEEKS 13 AND 14 (NOV. 30-DEC. 9): ROMANTIC PLOTTING: LOVE & POLITICS

Stendhal: The Red and the Black
Lecture on Stendhal: Derek SchiIling, Wed., Dec. 2