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TOPIC |
READINGS |
IMPORTANT DATES |
| 1 |
Introduction |
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| 2 |
Geography, Demography, International Relations, 1600-1850 |
Jacob, The Enlightenment,
Introduction 1-43
Recommended: McKay, 530-604
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The Discarded Image and the Copernican Revolution |
*Galileo, The Starry Messenger, in Stillman Drake, ed. Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo, 1-58. |
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Galileo and the Church |
*Maurice A. Finocchiaro, The Galileo Affair: A Documentary History, 1-43, 256-93.
Browse "The Galileo Project"
*John Heilbron, The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories, 3-23.
Recommended: McKay, 594-627
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The Cartesian Insight |
Descartes, Discourse on Method, all.
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The English Revolution, 1640-1660 |
*Documents from The University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization. Vol. 6: Early Modern Europe, Crisis of Authority. Eds. E. Cochrane, C.M. Gray, M.A. Kishlansky:
The Grand Remonstrance and the King’s Response, 1641 (pp. 290-306)
The Putney Debates, 1647 (pp. 349-84)
Speech Given by King Charles I on the Scaffold, 1649 (pp. 424-8)
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Continental Anglophilia in the Early Eighteenth Century |
*The English Bill of Rights, 1689, from Rationalism and Revolution, 1660-1815, eds. T.G. Barnes and G.D. Feldman, 75-9.
John Locke, Excerpt from Some Thoughts Concerning Education, in Jacob, The Enlightenment, 73-93
Voltaire, Excerpts from Letters Concerning the English Nation, in Jacob, The Enlightenment, 114-37
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| 8 |
A Visit to the Burndy Library of the Dibner Institute, MIT |
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First Paper Due |
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Science and the Civilizing Process at the End of the Seventeenth Century |
Fontenelle, Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds, vii-xxx, 3-73. |
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Women’s Roles ca. 1700 |
Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Letters, 1716-1718, in Jacob, The Enlightenment, 137-56
*The Correspondence of Madame du Noyer, ed. and trans. Florence L. Layard, 2:66-79
Recommended: McKay, 660-689
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The Encyclopédie: Contents |
*Stephen Grendzier, Denis Diderot’s The Encyclopedia, Preliminary Discourse and Selected Articles: Agnus Scythicus, Asparagus, Bible, Enjoyment, Fairs, Farmers, Natural Rights, The Question, The Slave Trade
Browse the online version of the Encyclopédie. Be sure to look at some of the plates.
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The Encyclopédie: Eighteenth-Century Reception |
*Robert Darnton, "The Encyclopédie Wars of Prerevolutionary France" The American Historical Review 78 (December 1973): 1331-52.
Browse the online version of the Encyclopédie. Be sure to look at some of the plates.
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Eighteenth-Century Colonialism I |
Jacob, The Enlightenment, Introduction, 43-72.
St-John de Crèvecœur, Letters From an American Farmer, 7-65.
Recommended: McKay, 628-59
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Eighteenth-Century Colonialism II |
St-John de Crèvecœur, Letters From an American Farmer, 66-105, 353-90. |
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| 15 |
Visit to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University |
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Second Paper Due |
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Armchair Anthropology in the Eighteenth Century |
Denis Diderot, Excerpts from Supplement to the Voyage of Bougainville, in Jacob, The Enlightenment, 160-76.
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Slavery and Rights |
Equiano, The Interesting Narrative, 19-97, 166-78.
*Vincent Carretta, "Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa? New Light on an Eighteenth-Century Question of Identity," Slavery and Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Societiesi 20 (December 1999): 96-105.
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The Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
Excerpts from Rousseau, The Social Contract, in Jacob, The Enlightenment, 177-201
Recommended: McKay, 690-723
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The French Revolution – Events |
*Documents from The University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization. Vol. 7: The Old Regime and the French Revolution, ed. K.M. Baker
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, 1789 (pp. 237-9)
*Olympe de Gouges, Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen, 1791 (pp. 261-8)
Recommended: McKay, 754-87 |
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The French Revolution – Interpretations |
*Documents from The University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization. Vol. 7: The Old Regime and the French Revolution, ed. K.M. Baker: Speeches at the Trial of Louis XVI, 1793 (pp. 302-24); Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (pp. 428-45)
*Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man, in Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke, and The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine (New York: Anchor Press/ Doubleday, 1973), 302-33
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Romanticism |
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Third Paper Due |
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Into the Nineteenth Century I |
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 5-112
Recommended: McKay, 724-87
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Into the Nineteenth Century II |
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 113-215 |
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Conclusion |
Immanuel Kant, "What is Enlightenment?" in Jacob, The Enlightenment, 202-8. |
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Review |
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Final Exam |