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21L.470

Eighteenth-Century Literature: Versions of the Self in 18th-C Britain

Undergraduate · Historical course

Spring 2003

Topics

  • Introduction.
  • Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding . (sel.)
  • Alexander Pope, Essay on Man , Books 1 & 2.
  • Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels , Books 1 & 2.
  • Swift, Gulliver’s Travels , Books 3 & 4.
  • Jonathan Swift and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Selected Poems.
  • Hume, “On Personal Identity” and Boswell, London Journal .
  • Boswell’s London Journal . (cont.)
  • Sterne’s Sentimental Journey .
  • Sterne’s Sentimental Journey . (cont.)
  • Equiano’s Interesting Narrative .
  • Equiano’s Interesting Narrative . (cont.)
  • Addison’s Spectator , poems by Akenside and Collins.
  • Young’s Night Thoughts , Warton’s “Pleasures of Melancholy.”
  • Thomas Gray, selected poems.
  • Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience .
  • Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience . (cont.)
  • Wordsworth’s 1799 Prelude .
  • Astell’s Serious Proposal to the Ladies .
  • Wollstonecraft on the Rights of Woman, Barbauld’s “The Rights of Woman”.
  • Robinson’s Sappho and Phaon .
  • Mary Hays, Memoirs of Emma Courtney .
  • Hays, Memoirs . (cont.)
  • Mary Shelley, Frankenstein , vols. 1 & 2.
  • Shelley, Frankenstein , vol. 3.

Readings

  • Blake, William. Songs of Innocence and Experience. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977.
    Listed reading
  • Hays, Mary. Memoirs of Emma Courtney. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
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  • Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
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  • Sterne, Laurence. A Sentimental Journey. New York: Penguin, 2002.
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  • Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels. New York: Penguin, 2003.
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  • Addison, Joseph. “The Spectator” (1711-1712). In Selected Essays . Edited by Daniel McDonald. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1973, selections.
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  • Akenside, Mark. “The Pleasures of Imagination, A Poem in Three Books” (1744). In Poetical Works . Edited by Robin Dix. Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999.
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  • Astell, Mary. A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (1694, 1697). Edited by Patricia Springborg. London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997.
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  • Barbauld, Anna Laetitia. “The Rights of Woman.” In The Norton Anthology of Poetry . 4th ed. Edited by Margaret Ferguson, Mary Jo Salter, and Jon Stallworthy. New York: Norton, 1996.
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  • Boswell, James. London Journal: 1762-1763 . Edited by Frederick A. Pottle. Reprint edition. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1992 [1950].
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  • Collins, William. “Ode on the Poetical Character” (1746). In The Norton Anthology of Poetry . 4th ed. Edited by Margaret Ferguson, Mary Jo Salter, and Jon Stallworthy. New York: Norton, 1996.
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  • Equiano, Olaudah. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano. Edited by Angelo Costanzo. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview, 2001.
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  • Gray, Thomas. “Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College” (1742), and “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” (1753). In The Norton Anthology of Poetry . 4th ed. Edited by Margaret Ferguson, Mary Jo Salter, and Jon Stallworthy. New York: Norton, 1996.
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  • Hume, David. “On Personal Identity” (1739). In A Treatise of Human Nature. Edited by L.A. Selby-Bigge. Oxford: Clarendon, 1978, Book I, Part 4, Section 6.
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  • Locke, John. Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689). Edited by Alexander Campbell Fraser. New York: Dover, 1959.
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  • Pope, Alexander. “Essay on Man” (1887). In The Poems of Alexander Pope . Edited by John Butt. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963.
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  • Robinson, Mary. Sappho and Phaon (1796). In Selected Poems . Edited by Judith Pascoe. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview, 2000.
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  • Smith, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) . Edited by Knud Haakonssen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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  • Swift, Jonathan. Selected poems . Edited by Pat Rogers. New York: Penguin Books, 1993.
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  • Thomson, James. The Castle of Indolence (1748). Edited by James Sambrook. Oxford: Clarendon, 1986.
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  • Voltaire, François Marie Arouet De. Letters Concerning England (1733). Translated by Leonard Tancock. Reprint edition. New York: Penguin, 1995.
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  • Warton, Thomas. The Pleasures of Melancholy (1745). London: R. Dodsley, 1747.
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  • Wilmot, John. “A Satire on Reason and Mankind.” In The poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester . Edited by Keith Walker. Oxford: Blackwell, 1984.
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  • Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Edited by Miriam Brody. New York: Penguin, 1992.
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  • Wordsworth, William. “The Prelude, 1799.” In The Prelude: 1799, 1805, 1850 . Edited by Stephen Gill et. al. New York: Norton, 1977.
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  • Young, Edward. Night Thoughts (1741). Edited by Stephen Cornford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
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