| The New Science |
| 1 | Introduction. | |
| 2 | Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding. (sel.) | |
| 3 | Alexander Pope, Essay on Man, Books 1 & 2. | |
| 4 | Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels, Books 1 & 2. | |
| 5 | Swift, Gulliver's Travels, Books 3 & 4. | |
| 6 | Jonathan Swift and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Selected Poems. | |
| New Morality, New Men |
| 7 | Hume, "On Personal Identity" and Boswell, London Journal. | |
| 8 | Boswell's London Journal. (cont.) | |
| 9 | Sterne's Sentimental Journey. | |
| 10 | Sterne's Sentimental Journey. (cont.) | |
| 11 | Equiano's Interesting Narrative. | |
| 12 | Equiano's Interesting Narrative. (cont.) | First Essay Assignment (5-6 pages) due. |
| The Aesthetic Imagination |
| 13 | Addison's Spectator, poems by Akenside and Collins. | |
| 14 | Young's Night Thoughts, Warton's "Pleasures of Melancholy." | |
| 15 | Thomas Gray, selected poems. | |
| 16 | Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience. | |
| 17 | Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience. (cont.) | |
| 18 | Wordsworth's 1799 Prelude. | |
| Femininity and Other Social Constructions |
| 19 | Astell's Serious Proposal to the Ladies. | |
| 20 | Wollstonecraft on the Rights of Woman, Barbauld's "The Rights of Woman". | |
| 21 | Robinson's Sappho and Phaon. | |
| 22 | Mary Hays, Memoirs of Emma Courtney. | |
| 23 | Hays, Memoirs. (cont.) | |
| 24 | Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, vols. 1 & 2. | |
| 25 | Shelley, Frankenstein, vol. 3. | Second Essay Assignment (8-10 pages) due. |
