Reading should be completed by the dates unde which they are listed. Please check this page regularly as more specific titles will be added during the course of the semester and reading dates may change with the pace of the class.
Introduction
Extracts from Part I of John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress (pp. 32-55)
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: 'A Satire on Charles II', 'A Satire against Reason and Mankind', 'Love and Life: A Song', 'The Disabled Debauchee', 'The Imperfect Enjoyment', 'Impromptu on Charles II' (p. 231, pp. 233-237, pp. 240-241)
Aphra Behn: 'The Disappointment', 'On a Juniper Tree, Cut Down to Make Busks' (pp. 139-142)
Mary Astell: from A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, from Reflection upon Marriage (pp. 290-291, pp. 128-129)
Aphra Behn, Oroonoko (pp. 144-178)
Samuel Pepys (pp. 112-120)
John Locke (pp. 124-127)
David Hume (pp. 134-135)
Dryden (pp. 69-86, pp. 101-108)
Class Cancelled
John Dryden: Marriage à la Mode
William Hogarth: Marriage à la Mode (pp. 719-724)
Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock (pp. 434-436, pp. 443-456)
Joseph Addison (pp. 427-433, pp. 539-540, pp. 543-545)
Opinions on Coffee-Houses (pp. 716-718)
Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal (pp. 417-426), Book 4 of Gulliver’s Travels (pp. 378-413)
Veteran’s Day: No Classes
Samuel Johnson (pp. 558-560, pp. 565-568, pp. 582-599)
Thanksgiving: No Classes
Thomas Gray (pp. 603-604, pp. 607-609)