You can access Part 4 of Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (first published in 1726) by clicking the Green Icons above. Phase One covers Chapters 1 through 6; and Phase Two covers Chapters 7 through 12.

 Literature & Humanites • Summer B 2022

Week One

Introductory: Analysis of the Enlightenment

Although we’re not reading a literary text in connection with the Introductory content, the lecture material does appear on your Midterm Exam

Mo., Jun. 21

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Tu., Jun. 22
Introductory Lecture 1/2

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We., Jun. 23
Introductory Lecture 2/2 (Parts A & B)

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Jonathan Swift, Part 4 of Gulliver’s Travels (1726)

Important Notice

Swift
Write Now Homework “A”
Deadline — 11:59 pm on Su., Jun. 27, 2021

Th., Jun. 24
Swift Lecture 1/2

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Fr., Jun. 25
Swift Lecture 2/2

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Due on Folio before 11:59 pm on Su., Jun. 27
Write Now Homework Exercise about Swift

There are 10 question sets, presented in reading order. In other words: the questions chronologically track the two PDFs that contain the assigned reading, Part 4 of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (see the top of this webpage for the PDFs). When attempting the questions, it’s advisable NOT to begin with Folio but instead to: (1) download a PDF containing the 10 Write Now questions as a single document (also available via the green bar below); and then (2) answer each question-set in a Google or Microsoft Word document, which you should save as you proceed. That way, you’ll always have proof that you completed the exercise, even if Folio goes down or otherwise doesn’t cooperate. When you have finished the entire Write Now exercise, you can simply paste the answers into the designated section on the course Folio page, making sure to submit your work before the firm deadline: 11:59 PM (Eastern) on Su., Jun. 17, 2021. The ability to submit ceases at that time, and effort not received before the deadline earns a grade of zero. Another way of saying the above: late submission isn’t possible. Remember, please, that your grade depends not just on correct responses but also: complete sentences; good grammar; accurate spelling; and clear expression.

Submission deadline on Folio: 11:59 pm on Su., Jun. 27, 2021

Midterm Exam Words from Week One

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INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL

periodization ••• 1650: first year of Enlightenment ••• Long Eighteenth Century = Enlightenment = Age of Reason (or Rationality) = Scientific Revolution = Neoclassical (or Neo-Augustan) Age ••• empiricism ••• scientific method developed by Francis Bacon and Robert Boyle ••• Boyle used phrase “the new philosophy” to refer to science, as it underwent revolutionary change during the Enlightenment ••• Enlightenment women: Boyle’s sister was the scientist Katherine Jones; Voltaire practiced “science and sex” with the mathematician Émilie du Châtelet (who helped spread Isaac Newton’s theories across Continental Europe) ••• Newton: gravity; motion; calculus ••• Gottfried Leibniz: calculus; theodicy or philosophical optimism (which responds to writings by Pierre Bayle); supreme monad ••• In his great Enlightenment work, Candide, the French author Voltaire bases Pangloss (“all tongue”; “all words”) on Leibniz ••• Newtonian mechanics versus Cartesian mechanics (René Descartes) ••• Descartes pronounced, Cogito, ergo sum (“I think; therefore, I am”) ••• polymath; philosophe ••• picaresque genre of literature; peripatetic; didactic ••• preceptor imparts or teaches his episteme (i.e. worldview) ••• republic of letters; invisible college ••• Royal Society (1660) ••• Thomas Hobbes; Leviathan; Commonwealth ••• Jean-Jacques Rousseau (of Geneva); The Social Contract ••• Francis Hutcheson: inalienable rights ••• Denis Diderot and Jean d’Alembert’s Encylopédie ••• Growing up, King Louis XIV of France (“sun king”) experienced The Fronde (series of civil wars); on the throne, he persecuted Huguenots ••• So-called three kingdoms: England (Anglican); Scotland (Presbyterian); Ireland (Roman Catholic) ••• King Frederick II (“the great”) of Prussia: palace called Sans-souci in Potsdam; participated in Seven Years’ War (rape as weapon; cf. Bosnian Wars; Rwandan Genocide) ••• Know: author of On the Natural Varieties of Mankind; his terms for black race and white race

SWIFT MATERIAL  

Jonathan Swift: member (along with Alexander Pope and other writers) of conservative (or Tory) Scriblerus Club; dean of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin (denomination: Church of Ireland) ••• St. Patrick’s Hospital ••• employment by William Temple of Moor Park (in England); role of Queen Anne in Swift’s career ••• pioneering journal: The Tatler ••• Lemuel (“belonging to God”) ••• Gulliver’s profession: surgeon ••• Know: Houyhnhnms’ ideal family configuration; frequency of their government assemblies ••• dapple-gray master horse versus sorrel nag; stone horses ••• orthography; philology (linguistics); etymology ••• Gaeilge word craic ••• eugenics ••• transubstantiation ••• repletion; salt ••• Horatian versus Juvenalian satire ••• Know: what Houyhnhnms regard death as being; characteristic feature/s of particularly libidinous Yahoos ••• Yahoos as commentary on simianization of Irish by English colonial regime ••• use of yahoo a suffix ••• flax; linen; rooftree ••• economy = oikos + nemein ••• Know: text (by Swift) in which Ancient Bee and Modern Spider appear; text (by Swift) that advocates breeding Irish children for food ••• Drapier’s Letters ••• Lilliput; Brobdingnag ••• Berkeley (perception); Boyle (scientific empiricism); Burke (political conservatism); Hutcheson (“inalienable rights”) ••• Know: what Gulliver identifies as “most honorable” profession in Europe; what a carabine is