GBK 431--The Rise of the Individual: From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

eadings in Shakespeare, Cervantes, Locke, Swift, Moliere, Kant, Jefferson, and others.

• Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600-1681)
  1. New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia

  Life is a Dream (1635)

• Miquel de Cervantes Saaverda (1547-1616)
  1. The Don Quixote Exhibit
  2. The Don Quixote Exhibit - Cervantes Biography
  3. New Advent Catholic Website

  Don Quixote (Pt. 1: 1605, Pt. 2: 1615)

  1. The Eris Project [lg., txt]

• Alexander Hamilton (c. 1755-1804), and
  1. Alexander Hamilton Web Site
  2. From Revolution to Reconstruction

• John Jay (1745-1829), and

• James Madison (1751-1836)
  1. From Revolution to Reconstruction
  2. http://mondrian.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/Companion/madison_james.html

  The Federalist Papers (1788)

  1. The Avalon Project
  2. Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library
  3. From Revolution to Reconstruction [TOC, html]
  4. Library of Congress
  5. The University of Oklahoma Law Center
  6. U.S. Founding Documents--Emory University

• David Hume (1711-1776)
  1. Björn's Guide to Philosophy
  2. A Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  3. Glass Bead Game
  4. The Hume Archives
  5. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy [html]

  Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748)

  1. Factasia
  2. The Hume Archives [357K TOC, html]
  3. The Wiretap Internet Electronic Text Archive

• Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
  1. Björn's Guide to Philosophy
  2. Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind
  3. A Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  4. Glass Bead Game

  Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals (1785)

  1. The Eris Project [lg., txt]

• John Locke (1632-1704)
  1. Björn's Guide to Philosophy
  2. A Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  3. From Revolution to Reconstruction
  4. The Galileo Project
  5. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  6. The Victorian Web

  Second Treatise on Government (1690)

  1. Eris Project [lg., txt]
  2. The Wiretap Internet Electronic Text Archive [text]

• Moliere (aka. Jean Baptiste Poquelin) (1622-1673)

  Tartuffe (1664)

  1. BiblioBytes
  2. Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia [French, html]

• William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
  1. Shakespeare Illustrated
  2. Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet

  Works

  1. The Litrix Reading Room [html]
  2. The Oxford English Dictionary Online [html, TOC]
  3. The Tech Classic Archives [Index of Plays, html]

  Hamlet (1603)

  1. The Eris Project [gopher, text]
  2. The Litrix Reding Room [html]
  3. The Tech Classic Archives [html]

  Henry IV, Part One (1597)

  1. The Eris Project [gopher, text]
  2. The Litrix Reading Room [html]
  3. The Tech Classic Archives [html]

  Henry V (1599)

  1. The Eris Project [gopher, text]
  2. The Litrix Reading Room [html]
  3. The Tech Classic Archives [html]

• Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
  1. Gulliver's Travels - Chronology
  2. E316K Masterworks of British Literature

  Gulliver's Travels (1726)

  1. The Eris Project [lg., txt]
  2. Gulliver's Travels - Home Page [html w/commentary]
  3. The Litrix Reading Room [html]

• Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)
  1. C-Span
  2. Great Books Index--Alexis de Tocqueville (1805--1859)
  3. New Advent Catholic Website

  Democracy in America (Vol. 1: 1835, Vol. 2: 1840)

  1. American Studies at the University of Virginia [TOC, html]
  2. Project Gutenberg (Volume 1) [txt, 1.2 MB]
  3. Project Gutenberg (Volume 2) [txt, 862K]

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