Week 1: Introduction 

M, Jan 27 Introduction 

W, Jan 29 No class 

Week 2: From the Old World to the New World

M, Feb 3 Aphra Behn, Oroonoko (1688, all)

W, Feb 5 Aphra Behn, Oroonoko (continued discussion), Critical introduction , Context,

Week 3: The Print Culture

M, Feb 10 Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, from The Tatler (1709); No.1 [Introducing the Tatler]; from The Spectator (1711-12); No. 1 [Introducing Mr. Spectator], No. 10 [The Aims of the Spectator], No. 11 [Inkle and Yarico], No. 62 [Wit: True, False, Mixed], No. 69 [The Royal Exchange]; Introductory YouTube; Anthony Pollock’s article; Manushag N. Powell’s article

W, Feb 12 No class 

Week 4: Commerce

M, Feb 17 No class

W, Feb 19 Bernard Mandeville, from The Fable of the Bees (1714); David Hume, from Of Commerce (1752); Adam Smith, from The Wealth of Nations (1776)

Week 5: Popular Fiction By Women & Grub Street

M, Feb 24 Eliza Haywood, “Fantomina”  (ECCO: Search under Secret Histories, Novels, and Poems, 2nd ed. [1725]); Aphra Behn, “The History of the Nun” (EEBO: Search under History of the Nun [1689])

W, Feb 26 Samuel Johnson, Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language 

Week 6: Mock-travel

M, Mar 3 Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels (Book 1)

W, Mar 5 Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels (Book 2) 

Week 7: Expatriate-Writer

M, Mar 10 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Turkish Embassy Letters (1716 and 1718)

W, Mar 12 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Turkish Embassy Letters; Edward Said, from Orientalism

Week 8: Midterm 

M, Mar 17 Midterm Project

Keywords: Public (American), Gesture (American), Empire (American), Fashion (American)

W, Mar 19 Midterm Project

Submit Midterm Project by Sunday, Mar 23

Week 9: Sensibility, Sympathy, and the Sublime

M, Mar 24 Adam Smith. from The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) 

W, Mar 26 David Hume. from Treatise of Human Nature; “Of the Standard of Taste.” (1757)

Week 10: Sensibility, Sympathy, and the Sublime

M, Mar 31 No Class

W, Apr 2 Edmund Burke, from A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) 

Week 11: The Sentimental

M, Apr 7 Laurence Sterne. A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (1768)

W, Apr 9 Laurence Sterne. A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (1768)

Week 12

M, Apr 14 Spring Break

W, Apr 16 Spring Break

Week 13: The Middle Passage

M, Apr 21 Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative (1789; chs. 1-3, including “dedication,” “preface”)

W, Apr 23 Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative (chs. 4-6)

Week 14

M, Apr 28 Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative (chs. 7-9)

W, Apr 30 John Locke. “Of Slavery”; Edmund Burke, from “Speech on the Conciliation with the American Colonies”; Samuel Johnson, “A Brief to Free a Slave” 

Week 15: The Anxious

M, May 5 Thomas De Quincey. Confessions of an English Opium Eater (1821; Part I)

W, May 7 Thomas De Quincey. Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Part II) 

Week 16

M, May 12 Final Paper Conference

W, May 14 Final Paper Conference

Week 17 

Submit Final Paper by Wednesday, May 14