Synopses & Reviews
This reader is designed to accompany volume two of The Western Humanities, Sixth Edition. The anthology offers students selections from the Wests literary and philosophical heritage, to help them establish vital intellectual links to the achievements of the continually evolving Western tradition. Each reading is preceded by an introduction, which provides information about the author and historical context for the document. In addition, “Reading the Selections” sections provide more specific information to prepare the students for reading the documents to follow. Selections are footnoted.
Table of Contents
PrefaceChapter 11 THE EARLY RENAISSANCE: RETURN TO CLASSICAL ROOTS, 1400-1494GIOVANNI PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA, Selections from On the Dignity of ManLEON BATTISTA ALBERTI, Selection from On PaintingBook IIChapter 12 THE HIGH RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MANNERISM, 1494-1564GASPARA STAMPA, Poems“3”“43”“98”“104”“151”BALDASSARE CASTIGLIONE, Selections from The Book of the CourtierBook IBook IIINICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI, Selections from The PrinceChapter XVChapter XVIChapter XVIIChapter 13 NORTHERN HUMANISM, NORTHERN RENAISSANCE, RELIGIOUS REFORMATIONS, AND LATE MANNERISM: 1500-1603FRANÇOIS RABELAIS, Selection from The Histories of Gargantua and PantagruelBook IDESIDERIUS ERASMUS, Selection from The Praise of FollySIR THOMAS MORE, Selection from UtopiaBook IIMICHEL DE MONTAIGNE, Selection from EssaysBook IWILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, HamletAct IAct IIAct IIIAct IVAct VMARTIN LUTHER, Selections from the Ninety-Five ThesesMIGUEL DE CERVANTES, Selection from Don QuixotePart IChapter 14 THE BAROQUE AGE: GLAMOUR AND GRANDIOSITY: 1600-1715SISTER JUANA INÉS DE LA CRUZ, Poem and Essay“In which she condemns the inconsistency of men, who blame women for what they themselves have caused”*Repuesta a Sor Filotea (The Reply to Sister Filotea)*MOLIÈRE, Selection from The MisanthropeAct IJOHN MILTON, Selection from Paradise LostBook IAPRA BEHN, Selection from Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave: A True HistoryChapter 15 THE BAROQUE AGE II: REVOLUTIONS IN SCIENTIFIC AND POLITICAL THOUGHT: 1600-1715GALILEO GALILEI, Selections from the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World SystemsPtolemaic and CopernicanTo the Discerning ReaderThe First DayFRANCIS BACON, Selection from EssaysOf StudiesRENÉ DESCARTES, Selections from Discourse on MethodPart IIPart IVTHOMAS HOBBES, Selection from LeviathanPart IJOHN LOCKE, Selections from the Second Treatise of Civil GovernmentChapter IXChapter XIXChapter 16 THE AGE OF REASON: 1700-1789*IMMANUEL KANT, Selection from “Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?”* DENIS DIDEROT, Selections from EncyclopédieJEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU, Selection from ConfessionsBook IVOLTAIRE, Selections from CandideChapter IChapter IIChapter IIIChapter IVChapter VChapter VIChapter XXXALEXANDER POPE, Selections from An Essay on ManChapter 17 REVOLUTION, REACTION, AND CULTURAL RESPONSE: 1760-1830THOMAS JEFFERSON, Selection from The Declaration of IndependenceDeclaration of the Rights of Man and CitizenJANE AUSTEN, Selections from Pride and PrejudiceChapter IChapter IIChapter IIIWILLIAM WORDSWORTH, “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, Selection from Faust, Part INightGEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON, Selection from Don JuanCanto IPERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, Poems“Ozymandias”“England in 1819”“Ode to the West Wind”JOHN KEATS, Poems“Ode on a Grecian Urn”“To Autumn”MARY SHELLEY, Selections from FrankensteinChapter IVChapter VGEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL, Selection from Reason in HistoryIII. The Idea of History and Its RealizationChapter 18 THE TRIUMPH OF THE BOURGEOISIE: 1830-1871KARL MARX and FRIEDRICH ENGELS, Selection from The Communist ManifestoCHARLES DARWIN, Selection from The Descent of ManCHARLOTTE BRONTË, Selection from Jane EyreChapter XXIIIEMILY DICKINSON, Poems“Theres a certain Slant of light”“I felt a Funeral, in my Brain”“Much Madness is divinest Sense““I heard a Fly buzzwhen I died““Because I could not stop for Death“WALT WHITMAN, Selections from “Song of Myself”GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, Selection from Madame BovaryChapter VIIICHARLES DICKENS, Selection from Hard TimesChapter V: The Key-noteFREDERICK DOUGLASS, Selections from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass*Chapter 1**Chapter 7*SOJOURNER TRUTH, “Aint I a Woman?”*HENRY DAVID THOREAU, Selection from “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience”*FYODOR DOSTEVSKY, Selection from Notes from Underground, Part IChapter 19 THE AGE OF EARLY MODERNISM: 1871-1914FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Selection from Thus Spake Zarathustra, Part ISIGMUND FREUD, Selection from Civilization and Its DiscontentsChapter VKATE CHOPIN, “The Story of an Hour”FRANZ KAFKA, Selection from MetamorphosisChapter 20 THE AGE OF THE MASSES AND THE ZENITH OF MODERNISM: 1914-1945ELIE WIESEL, Selection from NightJAMES JOYCE, Selection from Ulysses*VIRGINIA WOOLF, Selection from A Room of Ones Own*WILLIAM FAULKNER, Selection from The Sound and the FuryApril Seventh, 1928WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, Poems“The Second Coming”“Sailing to Byzantium”T.S. ELIOT, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”LANGSTON HUGHES, Poems“The Negro Speaks of Rivers”“Theme for English B”“Harlem”ZORA NEALE HURSTON, “How It Feels to Be Colored Me”GERTRUDE STEIN, Selection from The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas“Stein on Picasso and Matisse”Chapter 21 THE AGE OF ANXIETY AND BEYOND: 1945-SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR, Selection from The Second SexIntroductionMALCOLM X and ALEX HALEY, Selection from The Autobiography of Malcolm XChapter XI “Saved”MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., Selection from “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”JEAN-PAUL SARTRE, Selection from The Humanism of ExistentialismJAMES BALDWIN, Selection from “Stranger in the Village”DORIS LESSING, Selection from Martha QuestChapter IALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN, Selections from One Day in the Life of Ivan DenisovichALLEN GINSBERG, “A Supermarket in California”GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ, Selection from One Hundred Years of SolitudeChapter IALICE WALKER, “Everyday Use”TONI MORRISON, Selection from The Song of SolomonChapter IMAXINE HONG KINGSTON, Selection from The Woman WarriorNo Name Woman