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Professor Gerald Soliday Office:
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E-mail: soliday@utdallas.edu Internet:
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This course is an introduction to
European culture and thought in the eighteenth century. It attempts to situate intellectual movements
(like the Enlightenment or the Counter Enlightenment) as well as cultural
developments (such as neoclassicism or the rise of the novel) in their concrete
social and political settings. While it
brings together readings of interest to all three sections of the Arts &
Humanities graduate program, the course also introduces some of the newer
methods or approaches used in the social history of ideas, literature, and the
arts.
Course requirements include active participation in discussions
(
All written work and class
discussion for this course is in gender-neutral, nonsexist language and
rhetorical constructions. Such practice
is part of a classroom situation according full respect and opportunity to all
participants by all others.
Written work is submitted in paper copy, without cover pages or special
folders. Simply put your name and course
identification at the top of the first page and staple the upper left corner. Papers are always paginated (at the bottom
and center of each page after the first), double-spaced, and presented in clear
Parenthetical annotation is now strongly recommended, though any form
of annotation (foot- or endnotes) and bibliography is acceptable for this
course, provided that you use it correctly and consistently. Probably most appropriate for your work in
the arts and humanities are standard guides like Joseph Gibaldi’s MLA Handbook for Writers of Research
Papers (
At the same time, Diana Hacker's Rules
for Writers (
I should also mention that the eleventh edition of Merriam-Webster’s
Collegiate Dictionary (
Most required readings as well as some
recommended items for the course are on reserve in the McDermott Library. Paperback books used extensively are also for
sale, if you wish to purchase them, both in the University Bookstore and at
Off-Campus Books. Rather than being on
the library’s reserve shelf, however, shorter readings marked with an asterisk
(*) are available online through the copy of this syllabus on my Internet Web
site. Please note that those materials
are under copyright, you must always cite them properly, and you must have a
password to gain access to most of them.
I will give you the password in class.
Please also note
that this syllabus is a working document, so there will be changes in
the following schedule,
especially as we add reports on readings of special interest . As they occur, I will announce them in class
and post them on the syllabus at my Web site on the Internet.
Historical Chronology
1620-1800
Discussion of T.C.W.
Blanning, The Culture of Power and
the Power of Culture : Old Regime
Recommended:
William Doyle, The Ancien Regime
Isser Woloch, Eighteenth-Century
T.C.W. Blanning, The French Revolution: Class War or Culture Clash? (
Discussion of Roy Porter, The
Enlightenment (
Recommended:
J.C.D. Clark, English Society
Discussion of Porter, Creation of the Modern World,
chs.
Report on John Brewer, The Pleasure of the
Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century [Jim
Gorham]
Continued
discussion of Melton, Rise of the Public in Enlightenment
Report on The
Enlightenment in National Context, ed. Roy Porter and Mikuláš Teich
Report on Robert Darnton, The Literary Underground of the Old Regime and “Anatomy of the
The Great Cat
Massacre, ch.
Report on Thomas Crow, Painters and Public Life in
Discussion of Dror Wahrman, The Making of the Modern Self: Identity and Culture in Eighteenth-Century England, xi-
Report on David A. Bell, The Cult of the Nation in
Report on Lynn Hunt, Politics, Culture and Class in the French Revolution [Lori Martin]
The Emergence of Separate Spheres? Gender Relations
Report on Robert B. Shoemaker, Gender in
English Society
Recommended: Tim Hitchcock, “Redefining Sex in
Eighteenth-Century
Discussion of Wahrman, The Making of the Modern Self,
Body & Soul in Enlightenment Thought
Report on Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul [Renée Sullivan]
Recommended: The
Languages of Psyche: Mind and Body in
Enlightenment Thought, ed. G.S. Rousseau
(
Discussion of Eve Tavor Bannet, The Domestic Revolution: Enlightenment Feminisms
and the Novel
Report on Virginia Shapiro, Vindication of Political Virtue: The Political Theory of Mary
Wollstonecraft [Carrie Dennis]
Reports on Marilyn Butler, Jane Austin and the
War of Ideas [Calli Birch]
and
on Claudia Johnson, Jane Austen:
Women, Politics, and the Novel [Michelle Stewart]
Recommended: Ian Watt, The
Rise of the Novel
G.J. Barker-Benfield, The Culture of
Sensibility: Sex and Society in Eighteenth-Century
Discussion of Paper Topics
Report on S.J. Barnett, The Enlightenment and Religion [Sean
Sutherlin]
Report on Jonathan Sheehan, The Enlightenment Bible: Translation,
Scholarship, Culture [Brent Thorn]
Report on Dale Van Kley, The Religious Origins of the French Revolution: From Calvin to the Civil
Constitution
Report on H.C. Erik Midelfort, Exorcism and Enlightenment: Johann Joseph
Gassner and the Demons of
Eighteenth-Century
Report on The Skeptical Tradition Around
1800: Skepticism in Philosophy, Science, and Society, ed Johan
Van der Zande and Richard Popkin [Lucio
Benedetto]
Discussion
of *Isaiah Berlin, “The
Counter-Enlightenment,” Against the Current,
Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and
the Making of Modernity,
Report on McMahon,
Report on J.C.D. Clark, Samuel Johnson: Literature, Relligion and English Cultural Politics
from Restoration to Romanticism
[Jim
Marshall]
Report on Martha Woodmannsee, The Author,
Art, and the Market: Rereading the
History of Aesthetics [Cindy Renker]
Further Discussion of Paper Topics
5 Apr Noble Simplicity & Quiet Grandeur?
Discussion of instructor’s *outline of Paul O. Kristeller, "The Modern System of
the Arts," Renaissance Thought and the Arts
(
Report on David Solkin, Painting for Money: The
Visual Arts and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century
Report on William Weber, The Rise of Musical Classics in
Eighteenth Century
and
Ideology [Brian Fennig]
Further Discussion of Paper Topics
20 Apr Papers
Due. Party at the Instructor’s Home
Friday
Please attach a stamped self-addressed envelope
to the paper, so I may return it with comments and your marks for the course.
Map to Instructor’s Home =
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General Works
Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment. Ed. Alan Kors.
Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment. Ed. Peter Hanns Reill and Ellen Judy Wilson
Cassirer, Ernst. The
Philosophy of the Enlightenment
Gay, Peter. The
Enlightenment: An Interpretation.
Hazard, Paul. The
European Mind 1680-1715
Israel, Jonathan. Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the
Making of Modernity
Israel, Jonathan. Enlightenment
Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752
Dupré, Louis. The Enlightenment & the Intellectual
Foundations of Modern Culture
Outram, Dorinda. The
Enlightenment (
Munck,
Thomas. The Enlightenment: A Comparative Social
History
Eighteenth-Century Enlightenments
Roche,
Daniel. France in the Enlightenment
Gay, Peter, Voltaire’s Politics
Chisick, Harvey.
The Limits of Reform in the Enlightenment: Attitudes toward the
Education of the Lower
Classes in Eighteenth-Century France
Herr,
Richard. The Eighteenth Century
Revolution in
Jacob, Margaret.
The Newtonians and the English Revolution.
Jacob, Margaret. Living the Enlightenment: Freemasonry and
Politics in Eighteenth-Century
Scott, H.M. Enlightened
Absolutism
Dülmen,
Richard van. The Society of
Enlightenment: the rise of the Middle Class and Enlightenment Culture in
Germany
Till, Nicholas. Mozart and the Enlightenment: Truth,
Virtue and Beauty in Mozart’s Operas
Epstein,
Klaus. The Genesis of German
Conservatism
Berlin,
Isaiah. Three Critics of the
Enlightenment: Vico, Hamann, Herder
Eighteenth-Century Religions
Ward, W.R. Christianity
Under the Ancien Regime
Aston, Nigel. Christianity
and Revolutionary Europe c.
Freedman, Jeffrey. Poisoned
Chalice
Enlightenment and Religion: Rational Dissent in
Eighteenth-Century Britain, ed. Knud
Haakonssen
Sutcliffe,
Adam. Judaism and Enlightenment.
Schechter,
Ronald. Obstinate Hebrews: Representation of Jews in France,
Enlightenment & the World of Letters
Lowenthal, Leo. Literature, Popular
Culture, and Society, chs.
Christensen, Jerome. Practicing Enlightenment: Hume and the
Formation of a Literary Career
Kernan, Alvin.
Printing technology, Letters, & Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson &
the Impact of Print
Clark, J.C.D. Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and
EnglishCultural Politics from the Restoration
to Romanticism
Darnton, Robert. The Great Cat Massacre, ch.
Darnton, Robert. The
Forbidden Best-Sellers of Prerevolutionary
Woodmansee, Martha. The Author, Art, and the Market: Rereading the History of Aesthetics
McNeely, Ian F. The
Emancipation of Writing: German Civil Society in the Making
Examples of Social or Cultural Analysis
Roche, Daniel. The People of
Ménétra,
Jacques-Louis. Journal of My Life, intro. and
comm. Daniel Roche
Chartier,
Roger. “Culture as Appropriation: Popular Cultural
Uses in Early Modern France,“
Understanding Popular
Culture, ed. S. Kaplan (Berlin,
Chartier,
Roger. The Cultural Uses of Print in Early Modern
Some Texts Helpful for Teachers
Sambrook, James. The
Eighteenth Century: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English
Literature, 1700-1789
Kelly, Gary. English Fiction of the Romantic Period
1789-1830
Specht, W. A.
Literature and Society in
Eighteenth-Century England: Ideology, Politics and Culture, 1680-1820
Mori, Jennifer.
Britain in the
Age of the French Revolution.
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