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CLASS #TOPICSASSIGNMENTS
The New Science
1Introduction.
2Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding. (sel.)
3Alexander Pope, Essay on Man, Books 1 & 2.
4Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels, Books 1 & 2.
5Swift, Gulliver's Travels, Books 3 & 4.
6Jonathan Swift and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Selected Poems.
New Morality, New Men
7Hume, "On Personal Identity" and Boswell, London Journal.
8Boswell's London Journal. (cont.)
9Sterne's Sentimental Journey.
10Sterne's Sentimental Journey. (cont.)
11Equiano's Interesting Narrative.
12Equiano's Interesting Narrative. (cont.)First Essay Assignment (5-6 pages) due.
The Aesthetic Imagination
13Addison's Spectator, poems by Akenside and Collins.
14Young's Night Thoughts, Warton's "Pleasures of Melancholy."
15Thomas Gray, selected poems.
16Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience.
17Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience. (cont.)
18Wordsworth's 1799 Prelude.
Femininity and Other Social Constructions
19Astell's Serious Proposal to the Ladies.
20Wollstonecraft on the Rights of Woman, Barbauld's "The Rights of Woman".
21Robinson's Sappho and Phaon.
22Mary Hays, Memoirs of Emma Courtney.
23Hays, Memoirs. (cont.)
24Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, vols. 1 & 2.
25Shelley, Frankenstein, vol. 3.Second Essay Assignment (8-10 pages) due.
  




 




 
 


 



 








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