The French Enlightenment
M Redmond
8 points * 3 hours per week * First semester * Clayton campus
An introduction, through selected plays and narrative fiction, to the major literary, intellectual and political currents of eighteenth-century France. Attention will be given in lectures and seminars to the portrayal of women in the prescribed texts and to the sociopolitical status of women in the period.
Assessment
Essay (2000 words): 40% * Class paper: 20% * Test: 40%
Prescribed texts
Choderlos de L Les liaisons dangereuses GF-Flammarion
Diderot Jacques le fataliste GF-Flammarion
Marivaux Les fausses confidences Bordas or Larousse
Marivaux La double inconstance Bordas or Larousse
Voltaire Candide Classiques Larousse
Recommended texts
Charpentier J Littérature, textes et documents XVIII siècle Nathan
Coulet H Le Roman jusqu'à la Révolution Armand Colin
Larthomas P Le théâtre en France au XVIIIe siècle PUF
Rougement M La vie théâtrale en France au XVIIIe siècle Champion-Slatkine