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DIVISION SIX THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT. Ⅰ. General Introduction. Ⅱ. French Philosophy and Literature. Ⅲ. English Literature. Ⅳ. German Literature and Philosophy. Ⅴ. Art. Ⅵ. Music. General Introduction. 1. Enlightenment. 2. Historical Context. 1. Baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu.
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DIVISION SIXTHE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT Ⅰ. General Introduction Ⅱ. French Philosophy and Literature Ⅲ. English Literature Ⅳ. German Literature and Philosophy Ⅴ. Art Ⅵ. Music
General Introduction 1. Enlightenment 2. Historical Context
1. Baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu a. Persian Letters b. The Spirit of the Laws
2. Voltaire a. Lettres Anglaise b. Candide
3. Jean-Jacques Rousseau a. The Origin of Human Inequality b. The New Heloise c. Emile, or On Education d. The Social Contract Les Charmettes: the house where Jean-Jacques Rousseau lived with Mme de Warens in 1735-6. Now a museum dedicated to Rousseau. e. The Confessions
Palazzo belonging to Tommaso Querini at 968 Cannaregio Venice that served as the French Embassy during Rousseau's period as Secretary to the Ambassador The tomb of Rousseau in the crypt of the Panthéon, Paris
4. Denis Diderot a. Philosophical Thoughts b. Letters on the Blind c. Encyclopédie d. Elements of Physiology e. Rameau’s Nephew
English Literature 1. Alexander Pope 2. Daniel Defoe 3. Jonathan Swift 4. Samuel Richardson 5. Henry Fielding 6. Samuel Johnson 7. Journalism and the Periodical Essay
Alexander Pope a. Essay on Criticism b. The Rape of the Lock c. Dunciad d. Essay on Man
Jonathan Swift a. A Modest Proposal b. Gulliver’s Travels
German Literature and Philosophy 1. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 2. Wolfgang von Goethe 3. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 4. Immanuel Kant
1. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing a. Minna Von Barnhelm b. Nathan the Wise c. Laocoon d. Hamburgische Dramaturgie
2. Wolfgang von Goethe a. The Sorrows of Young Werther b. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship c. Wilhelm Meister’s Travels d. Faust e. Poetry and Truth
3. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller a. The Robber b. Cabal and Love c. Wallenstein d. Wilhelm Tell
4. Immanuel Kant a. General History of Nature and Theory of the Heavens b. Critique of Pure Reason c. Critique of Practical Reason d. Critique of Judgment
Art 1. Rococo Art 2. Typical Works and Major Artists
Typical Works and Major Artists a. Salon de la princesse, Hôtel de Soubise b. Rococo Painters
ⅰ.Antoine Watteau L'Enseigne de Gersaint (1720): In one of Watteau's last paintings, the portrait of Louis XIV and his own artworks are being packed away. The painter had no reason to expect that his name would be remembered long.
La Boudeuse from the Hermitage Museum: "Flirting coquettishly yet innocently, the artist's imaginary heroes – the deliberately indifferent lady and her insistently attentive cavalier – are shown with gentle irony. Their fragile, elegant world is dominated by a lyrical mood with just a touch of elegiacmelancholy." Watteau's commedia dell'arte player of Pierrot, ca 1718-19, traditionally identified as "Gilles" (Louvre)
ⅱ.Francois Boucher Marie-Louise O'Murphy c. 1752 The Toilet of Venus (1751) typifies the superficially pleasing elegance of Boucher's mature style. The Breakfast (1739).
Music 1. The Musical Enlightenment 2. The Classical Period
a. Johann Sebastian Bach The opening of the six-part fugue from The Musical Offering, in Bach's hand Frontispiece of Bach's Clavier-Büchlein vor Anna Magdalena Bach, composed in 1722 for his second wife Violin Sonata No. 1 in G minor (BWV 1001) in Bach's handwriting
The Classical Period a. Joseph Haydn b. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart