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introduction

Voltaire and optimism

* no section meeting this week! *

MLK Day: no class

The Enlightenment Project

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Diderot and the Encyclopedia

Austen, Day 1

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Austen, Day 1

Austen, Day 2

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Candide

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Jefferson, Descartes, Swift

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Diderot

Pride & Prejudice

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Pride & Prejudice

Pride & Prejudice

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prompt 1

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draft 1

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paper 1

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draft 2

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paper 2

Goethe: Romantic masculinity

Douglass: the Romantic self

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The Beautiful

The Sublime

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Shelley, Day 1

Shelley, Day 2

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Whitman: Romantic freedom

Dickinson: Romantic interior

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Sorrows of Young Werther

Narrative of the Life of F. Douglass

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Burke, Keats, Wordsworth

Leopardi, Shelley, Coleridge

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Frankenstein

Frankenstein

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Whitman

Dickinson

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prompt 3

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draft 3

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paper 3

Chekhov: realism

Dostoevsky: modernism

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Spring Break: no class

Spring Break: no class

Spring Break: no class

Realism: France

Modernism: US, UK

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Kafka

Larsen

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The Cherry Orchard

Notes from the Underground

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Balzac, Zola

Melville, Dickens

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The Metamorphosis

Passing

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draft 4

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paper 4

Modernity and Fight Club, Day 1

Modernity and Fight Club, Day 2

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French Symbolism

James & Final Review

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Calvino and the City, Day 1

Calvino and the City, Day 2

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Magical Realisms

conclusions

FINAL EXAM: Monday, 7-10 PM

Marx, Nietzsche

Nietzsche, Freud

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Rimbaud, Baudelaire

The Turn of the Screw

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Invisible Cities

Invisible Cities

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Borges, Márquez

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