Texts in order of use:

Peter Burke: The Fabrication of Louis XIV (Yale)
Alexander Pope: Essay on Man and Other Poems (Dover)
Montesquieu: Persian Letters (Penguin)
Darnton: The Great Cat Massacre (Vintage)
Rousseau: Rousseau's Political Writings (Norton)
Rousseau: Confessions (Penguin)
Diderot: Rameau's Nephew (Penguin)
Mozart: Three Mozart Libretti (Dover)
Crow: Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth Century Paris (Yale)
Popkin: A Short History of the French Revolution (Prentice Hall)
Lefebvre: The Origins of the French Revolution (Princeton)
Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France (Penguin)
Hunt: Politics, Culture and Class in the French Revolution (California)
Walzer: Regicide and Revolution (Columbia)
Goya: The Disasters of War (Dover)
Blake: The Complete Poems (Penguin)
Wordsworth: Selected Poems (Penguin)
Goethe: Faust Part I (Bantam)
Goethe: Faust Part II (World's Classics)
Thompson: The Making of the English Working Class (Vintage)
Dickens: Hard Times (Oxford)

WEEK 1 (AUG. 30-SEPT. 3): 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. 30
Lecture on Art at the Court of Louis XIV: William Diebold, Wed. Sept. 1

WEEK 2 (SEPT. 7-10 [Sept. 6 is Labor Day]: INTRODUCTION TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT

Pope: Essay on Man, Epistles I and II

Montesquieu: Persian Letters, Montesquieu's Preface; Letters 1-19, 54-66, 73-92, 133-140 (pp. 39-67, 116-135, 149-174, 237-247)

Lecture on Pope: Roger Porter, Wednesday, Sept. 8
Lecture on Montesquieu: Ed Segel, Friday, Sept. 10

WEEK 3 (SEPT. 13-17): ENLIGHTENMENT AND SUBVERSION

Kant: "What Is Enlightenment? (Humanities pamphlet)

Diderot: "The Encyclopedia" (Humanities pamphlet)

Darnton: The Great Cat Massacre, pp. 191-213

Sade: selections from The 120 Days of Sodom (Humanities pamphlet)

Lecture on Kant and Sade: Katja Garloff, Mon., Sept. 13
Lecture on Enlightenment Social History: Scott Smith, Wed., Sept. 15

WEEK 4 (SEPT. 20-24): ROUSSEAU AND ENLIGHTENMENT POLITICS

Rousseau: from Rousseau's Political Writings (Your instructor will choose readings from among Discourse on Social Equality and/or On Social Contract, both found in this volume)

Rousseau: Confessions, Books 1 and 2

Lecture on Rousseau: Christine Mueller, Mon., Sept. 20
Lecture on Rousseau: Roger Porter, Wed., Sept. 22

WEEK 5 (SEPT. 27-OCT. 1): ENLIGHTENMENT CRITIQUES

Diderot: Rameau's Nephew

Mozart: Don Giovanni (libretto and video). (The video presentation of the opera is Monday Sept. 27 and Tuesday Sept. 28, at 7:00, in Psychology Auditorium)

Lecture on Don Giovanni, Perry Lorenzo, Wed., Sept. 29

WEEK 6 (OCT. 4-8): EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ART: FROM COURT TO REVOLUTION

Popkin: A Short History of the French Revolution, pp. 1-51 (required background reading, not for class discussion)

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. 4
Lecture on David: William Diebold, Wed., Oct. 6

WEEK 7 (OCT. 11-15): THE BOURGEOISIE AND THE ORIGINS OF THE REVOLUTION

Darnton: The Great Cat Massacre: pp. 75-143

Lefebvre: The Origins of the French Revolution, pp. 7-20, 41-50, 68-75, 98-109, 131-146, 169-181, 209-223

Lecture on The French Revolution: Ed Segel, Wed., Oct. 13

WEEK 8 (OCT. 25-29): The FRENCH REVOLUTION: HOPE AND CRITIQUE, REPRESENTATION

Popkin: A Short History of the French Revolution, pp. 52-83, 127-142 (required background reading, not for class discussion)

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. 25

WEEK 9 (NOV. 1-5): THE REVOLUTIONARY AFTERMATH: DISILLUSIONMENT

Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France, Penguin edition pp. 119-155, 163-198

Paine: from Rights of Man and The Age of Reason (Humanities pamphlet)

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)

Lecture on Burke and Paine: Ed Segel, Mon., Nov. 1
Lecture on Goya: William Diebold, Wed., Nov. 3

WEEK 10 AND 11 (first half) (NOV. 8-17): BRITISH ROMANTIC POETRY

Blake: Your instructor will choose the readings, but you should look at: 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

Wordsworth: Your instructor will choose the readings, but you should look at: "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)"

Raymond Williams: "The Romantic Artist" (Humanities pamphlet)

Harold Bloom: "Prometheus Rising: The Backgrounds of Romantic Poetry" (Humanities pamphlet)

Barrell: "John Constable" (Humanities pamphlet and on reserve)

Lecture on Blake: Roger Porter, Mon., Nov. 8
Lecture on Wordsworth: Roger Porter, Wed., Nov. 10
Lecture on Constable: William Diebold, Mon., Nov. 15

WEEK 11 (second half) AND WEEK 12 (NOV. 18-24): FAUST AND ROMANTIC HEROISM

Goethe: Faust, all of Part One; Prologue and Act V of Part II

Lecture on Faust: Roger Porter, Mon., Nov. 22
Lecture on Beethoven: Ed Segel, Wed., Nov. 24

WEEK 13 (first half) (NOV. 29-DEC. 1): THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 

Thompson: The Making of the English Working Class, pp. 9-13, 189-212, 314-374, 711-746

Lecture on The Industrial Revolution: Ed Segel, Monday, Nov. 29

WEEKS 13 (second half) AND 14 (DEC. 2-DEC. 8): INDUSTRIALISM, CLASS, AND FICTION

Dickens: Hard Times

Lecture on Dickens: Roger Porter, Mon., Dec. 6