| The New Science |
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Introduction. |
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Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding. (sel.) |
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Alexander Pope, Essay on Man, Books 1 & 2. |
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Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels, Books 1 & 2. |
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Swift, Gulliver's Travels, Books 3 & 4. |
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Jonathan Swift and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Selected Poems. |
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| New Morality, New Men |
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Hume, "On Personal Identity" and Boswell, London Journal. |
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Boswell's London Journal. (cont.) |
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Sterne's Sentimental Journey. |
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Sterne's Sentimental Journey. (cont.) |
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Equiano's Interesting Narrative. |
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Equiano's Interesting Narrative. (cont.) |
First Essay Assignment (5-6 pages) due. |
| The Aesthetic Imagination |
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Addison's Spectator, poems by Akenside and Collins. |
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Young's Night Thoughts, Warton's "Pleasures of Melancholy." |
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Thomas Gray, selected poems. |
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Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience. |
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Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience. (cont.) |
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Wordsworth's 1799 Prelude. |
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| Femininity and Other Social Constructions |
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Astell's Serious Proposal to the Ladies. |
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Wollstonecraft on the Rights of Woman, Barbauld's "The Rights of Woman". |
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Robinson's Sappho and Phaon. |
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Mary Hays, Memoirs of Emma Courtney. |
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Hays, Memoirs. (cont.) |
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Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, vols. 1 & 2. |
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Shelley, Frankenstein, vol. 3. |
Second Essay Assignment (8-10 pages) due. |
