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ENGL 2200: English II (Prof. Khan)
The Enlightenment
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ENGL 2200: English II (Prof. Khan)
Updated for Prof. Khan's Fall 2023 Course
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The Enlightenment
Voltaire: Candide (1759)
Olaudah Equiano: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789)
Mary Wollstonecraft : A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792)
The Romantic Era
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Jane Austen: Persuasion (1817)
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein (1818)
Romantic Poets
Modernism
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Joseph Conrad: "An Outpost of Progress" (1896)
T.S. Eliot: "Preludes" (1915)
Virginia Woolf: "A Room of Own's Own" (1929)
Harlem Renaissance
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Langston Hughes
Claude McKay
Postmodernism
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Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot (1953)
Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
Octavia E. Butler: Dawn (1987)
Afro-futurism
E-books on Afro-futurism
Posthumanism/Transhumanism and Xenofeminism
E-books on Post/Transhumanism
Evaluating Sources
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Digital Resources on the Enlightenment
BBC: The Power of Knowledge: Heroes of the Enlightenment (Video)
This program discusses the contributions of Immanuel Kant, Isaac Newton, Denis Diderot, the Marquês de Pombal, and Erasmus Darwin (52 min.)
Immanuel Kant: "What is Enlightenment?" (1784)
A translation into English of Kant's famous essay on what it means to be an enlightened human being.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Enlightenment
An overview of the philosophical characteristics of The Enlightenment in France.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Immanuel Kant
An overview of Kant's life and thought.
E-books on The Enlightenment
Democratic Enlightenment : Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights 1750-1790
by
Jonathan Israel
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9780199668090
Publication Date: 2013
The Enlightenment
by
Dan Edelstein
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0226184471
Publication Date: 2010
Immanuel Kant: Key Concepts
by
Will Dudley; Kristina Engelhard
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1844652386
Publication Date: 2014
The Primitive, the Aesthetic, and the Savage: An Enlightenment Problematic
by
Tony C. Brown
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0816675627
Publication Date: 2012
Slavery and the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic, 1750-1807
by
Justin Roberts
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1107025850
Publication Date: 2013
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