English 3336 Restoration and Eighteenth Century Poetry and Prose
Prompt # 24
2 November 2011

Readings

Here are the readings, as I've been able to identify and distribute them. I've made some choices to focus readings on particular texts, and tried to find manageable ones. If you weren't in class, email me with a choice; if you were, but your name isn't here, it wasn't on the page, so email me and tell me that. I'll add names to this page as I get them.

The forum for posting your reports on your reading experience will be up before the weekend.



John Locke, A Letter Concerning Toleration

Source: HI Library, Two treatises of government : and a letter concerning toleration, ed. Ian Shapiro.

Ebrary book, also available in hard copy in the library. It would be helpful to read the introduction, "Reading Locke Today," as well as the Letter.



Jonathan Swift, two texts:

 "A Letter to the Whole People of Ireland by M. B. Drapier"

Source: HI Library: you can find an image of the original edition, as it was printed in Dublin, on line. There are also many editions of it in the library, in the works of Swift or in collections of Swift's work.

"An argument to prove, that the abolishing of Christianity in England, may, as things now stand, be attended with some inconveniencies, and perhaps not produce those many good effects propos'd thereby"

Source: HI Library; search the title and you can find an image of the original 1717 edition. It, too, is available in almost every collection of Swift's works you'll find in the library.



Thomas Paine, Common Sense

Source: There are a number of sources on line; one is at Google docs, here:

http://tinyurl.com/68hhpmx

There's also one at Gutenberg, here:

http://tinyurl.com/44bogbp

And there are many hard copies in the library.



Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W-----y M------e : written, during her travels in Europe, Asia and Africa, to persons of distinction, men of letters. &c. in different parts of Europe. : Which contain, among other curious relations, accounts of the policy and manners of the Turks ; drawn from sources that have been inaccessible to other travellers.

The 1766 edition is available on line via the library. The Gutenberg edition, which is in modern type, is online, here:

http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/17520/pg17520.html

Theoretically, there's a copy of the 1837 edition by Lord Wharncliffe on line at the Electronic Text Centre, but so far I've not seen how to display the text.

The Hard copy of the 1971 edition of The Selected Letters of LMWM_ is currently checked out. Without having someone do the selection, the problem, of course, is deciding which letters to read. According to the wiki report, the 52 letters she wrote during her time in Turkey would be the priority. I'm  trying to see if there's a way to identify them separately. I'll add any information I have to this prompt as I find it.



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