The following books are available for purchase at the Coop Bookstore. There is also a Course Reader; readings from it are indicated on the schedule of readings by an asterisk (*).
| SESSION# |
TOPIC |
READINGS |
| 2 |
Margaret Jacob |
The Enlightenment. A Brief History with Documents |
| 5 |
Descartes |
Discourse on Method, all. |
| 9 |
Fontenelle |
Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds |
| 13 |
J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur |
Letters From an American Farmer |
| 17 |
Olaudah Equiano |
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Equiano |
| 22 |
Mary Shelley |
Frankenstein |
Recommended
McKay, Hill, Buckler, A History of Western Society II: From Absolutism to the Present (A Western Civ textbook, for background reading.)