#  English 146et. An Enlightenment for Today? 

 



 Instructor: [James Engell](/people/james-engell)  
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 1:30-2:45 pm | Location: Emerson 108  
[Website](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/61381)

 Relevance of Enlightenment texts for perennial issues faced today. Aphra Behn on race and slavery; John Locke on religious (in)tolerance; Jonathan Swift on corruptions of religion, learning, and bureaucracy; Alexander Pope on pernicious influence of money and political chicanery; Samuel Johnson on marriage, choice of career, problem of evil, and arrogance of colonial power; Edmund Burke on imperial overreach, human rights, and religious oppression; Mary Wollstonecraft on gender, sex, and unjust treatment of women. Some texts paired with contemporary writing.



 



 

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