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History
of European Civilization – II Prof.
Paul Cheney 205
Gates / Blake Hall 702-3446 Office
hours: Monday, 2-3 p.m., or by appointment |
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In the first quarter of this course, we explored some
central themes and episodes in European history in order to understand the social, political,
cultural and intellectual movements that have come to define European
civilization. In this quarter, we dramatically sharpen our focus (with some
exceptions) to England and France in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in
order to examine two events whose consequences have largely come to define our
experience of modernity: the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution.
It was over this period and through these events that the material and
ideological bases of Europe’s old regime were undermined. While the French
Revolution informed many of the political aspirations of new or hitherto
excluded classes (bourgeois and proletarians) all over Europe, the dislocations
of the Industrial Revolution led to what Hegel calls “the grandeur and misery”
of bourgeois society. Accordingly, we will examine the culture of Europe and
the experience of its principal classes during a period that was simultaneously
supremely self-confident and self-critical.
Attendance
and participation (25%). Informed participation is a central requirement of this course.
Students are expected to do all of the assigned readings and to give evidence
of this in class. Satisfactory participation also entails an attention to
reasoned arguments about the texts under discussion and collegiality toward
fellow students. Your grade will be reduced for excessive absences.
Paper (20%). Students are asked to write one longer paper of 5
to 7 on one of the four novels listed below. The approach you should take in
this paper will be discussed later in the quarter.
Final
exam (25%).
Set
Books. These
books are available for purchase at the Seminary Co-op Bookstore (Corner of
58th and University). While most of the books are also on reserve at Regenstein
and Harper library, students are strongly encouraged to buy them.
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Readings
in Western Civilization (Chicago), vol. 7 |
*Readings
in Western Civilization (Chicago), vol. 8 |
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J.S.
Mill, On Liberty (Hackett) |
*TCW
Blanning, The Nineteenth Century (Oxford) |
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Sigmund
Freud, Civilization and its Discontents (Norton) |
*William
Doyle, The Oxford History of the French Revolution (Oxford) |
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Gustave
Flaubert, Madame Bovary (Penguin) |
*Charles
Breunig, The Revolutionary Era, 1789-1850 (W.W. Norton) |
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Marx
and Engels, The Communist Manifesto (Penguin) |
*Bernard
Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees (Hackett) |
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Stendhal,
The Charterhouse of Parma (Penguin) |
*= Optional Purchase |
Novels for final paper (choose one)--also
available at Seminary Coop Bookstore
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Jane Austen, Persuasion |
Giuseppe Lampedusa, The Leopard |
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Emile Zola, La
Bête Humaine |
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date |
readings |
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1/6 |
Introduction: no readings
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Aristocratic Society in Transition |
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1/8 |
Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees: Preface; Enquiry into
the Origin of Moral Virtue; Comments C, L, and M (to p. 77) (the poem
included at the end of the selection is not required, but you may want
to scan it for your information)
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1/10 |
Jacques Casanova, History of My Life chs. 1, 2, 3, 6, 7 (N.B. chapter 13, the famous “Escape from the Leads” is included in your packet, but this is optional reading for you.) |
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1/13 |
Jacques Casanova, History of My Life (Selections) chs. 15, 16, 22, 34 |
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1/15 |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Arts and the Sciences Doyle, ch. 2 |
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The French Revolution |
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1/17 |
Cahiers de
doléances: Sample Cahiers (from
Blois); The Third
Estate of Versailles; The Third Estate of Carcassonne;
Arthur Young, Travels in France (selections);
Doyle, ch. 1
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m |
1/20 |
Martin Luther King Day: No Class |
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1/22 |
Order in Council Concerning the Convocation of the Estates
General; Regulations for the Convocation of the Estates General; Sieyès What is the
Third Estate (RWC 7, 143-145; 154-184) Doyle, ch. 4 |
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f |
1/24 |
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen; Gouges,
Declaration of the Rights of Women; (RWC 7, 237-242; 261-269); “The
Jewish Question,” from Hunt ed. The French Revolution
and Human Rights. Doyle, ch. 5 |
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m |
1/27 |
The King’s Trial (RWC 7, 302-324); Selections from Walzer,
Regicide and Revolution Doyle, chs. 6,
11 |
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1/29 |
“Make Terror the Order of the Day”; The Law of Suspects; Robespierre , Report on the Principles of Political Morality |
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1/31 |
“Napoleonic Ideas” (RWC, 7: 416-427); further Napoleon Documents |
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2/3 |
Stendhal,
The Charterhouse of Parma, chs. 1-5 Doyle, chs. 9, 15 |
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Restoration Society |
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2/5 |
Bejnamin Constant, The Liberty of the Ancients Compared with that of the
Moderns Doyle, ch. 16 |
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2/7 |
Honoré de Balzac,
Colonel Chabert Blanning, ch. 1 |
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m |
2/10 |
University Holiday: No Class |
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The Industrial Revolution: Bourgeois and
Proletarians
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2/12 |
Proto-Industrialization Blanning, ch. 3 |
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2/14 |
E.P. Thompson¸ The Making of the English Working Class (Selections) |
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2/17 |
Karl Marx, Capital, the length of the working day |
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2/19 |
Thomas Malthus: An Essay on the Principle of Population; David Ricardo, The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation |
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Organizing the Masses: Socialist Alternatives |
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2/21 |
Charles Fourier, On the
Phalanstery; Blanning, ch.
2 **Final Paper Due** |
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2/24 |
Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto; Bukharin, The ABC of Communism |
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Bourgeois Society: Civilization and
its Discontents
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2/26 |
J.S. Mill, On Liberty Blanning, ch. 4 |
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2/28 |
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary |
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3/3 |
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary |
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3/5 |
Sigmund Freud, Civilization and its Discontents, chs. 2-5 |
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3/7 |
Final Class: Review Session |