Neo-classical and Romantic Literature

Lesson 1. Introduction to Eighteenth century Literature / Arnold Weinstein ---Lesson 2. Racine, Phedre / Arnold Weinstein ---Lesson 3. Moliere, The Misanthrope / Michael Sugrue ---Lesson 4. Defoe, Robinson Crusoe / Michael Sugrue ---Lesson 5. Defoe, Moll Flanders / Arnold Weinstein ---Lesson 6. Voltaire, Candide / Michael Sugrue ---Lesson 7. Swift, Gulliver's Travels / Michael Sugrue ---Lesson 8. Sterne, Tristram Shandy / Arnold Weinstein ---Lesson 9. Rousseau, Confessions / Arnold Weinstein ---Lesson 10. Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther / Michael Sugrue ---Lesson 11. Goethe, Faust / Michael Sugrue ---Lesson 12. Stendhal, The Red and the Black / Victor Brombert.Michael Sugrue is the Behrman Fellow in the Council on the Humanities at Princeton University. A graduate of the Great Books Program, he received his B.A. in history at the University of Chicago and went on to earn his M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in history from Columbia University.Prior to taking his position at Princeton, Professor Sugrue taught at the City College of New York, Columbia University, Manhattan College, New York University, Hampton University, and Touro College. He served as the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University from 1992 to 1994. He has been awarded the Chamberlain Fellowship, the President’s Fellowship, the John Jay Fellowship, and the Meyer Padva Prize.