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reading list for this week:

Sir Walter Scott's Guy Mannering
Hegel's Philosophy of History, exerpts
Thomas de Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
John Barrell's "The Infection of Thomas de Quincey: a Psychopathology of Imperialism"

reading list for next week:

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
Judith Butler's Gender Trouble
Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication Concerning the Rights of Women
Matthew Lewis's The Monk
Sigmund Freud's ‘The Uncanny’

Comments

  1. Lil_Flip31 January, 2007 18:32

    You go girl!!
    Thats QUITE a reading list!! Must be grad school. :-)

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  2. Wonder Jens31 January, 2007 21:32

    O.o
    I hope you save PandP for a pleasant break in the middle or the last bit of reprieve.

    ReplyDelete

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