Humanities 4: Enlightenment, Romanticism, Revolution

Winter 2023

Required Texts

• Voltaire, Candide, or Optimism, trans Pearson (Oxford)

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality, trans Philip (Oxford)

• John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (Hackett)

• Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1831 Edition) (Penguin)

Class Schedule

1/10-12        Introduction & *Declaration of Independence

1/17-19        Voltaire, *”Poem on the Lisbon Disaster” & Candide

1/24-26       Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality

1/31-2/2       *Immanuel Kant, selection from The Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals

2/7-9       John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

2/14-16       *William Wordsworth, selected poems

2/21-23       Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1831 edition)

2/28-3/2        *Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”

3/7-9       Thoreau & Dickinson

• *Henry David Thoreau, “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For,” from Walden

• *Emily Dickinson, selected poems

3/14-16        *Walt Whitman, selected poems