Readings in the Western Humanities, Volume 2

by Matthews, Roy T.; Platt, F. Dewitt

• ISBN13: 9780072556407
• ISBN10: 0072556404
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-08-29
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

Volume 2 of Readings in the Western Humanities presents a wide array of primary source readings ranging from the Renaissance to the present day.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
The Early Renaissance: Return to Classical Roots, 1400--1494	1	(7)
Selections from On the Dignity of Man	1	(3)
Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola
Selection from On Painting	4	(4)
Leon Battista Alberti
Book II	5	(3)
The High Renaissance and Early Mannerism, 1494--1564	8	(12)
Poems	8	(3)
Gaspara Stampa
3	9	(1)
43	10	(1)
98	10	(1)
104	10	(1)
151	10	(1)
Selections from The Book of the Courtier	11	(4)
Baldassare Castiglione
Book I	12	(2)
Book III	14	(1)
Selections from The Prince	15	(5)
Niccolo Machiavelli
Chapter XV	16	(1)
Chapter XVI	17	(1)
Chapter XVII	18	(2)
Northern Humanism, Northern Renaissance, Religious Reformations, and Late Mannerism: 1500--1603	20	(77)
Selection from The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel	20	(3)
Francois Rabelais
Book I	21	(2)
Selection from The Praise of Folly	23	(4)
Desiderius Erasmus
Selection from Utopia	27	(4)
Sir Thomas More
Selection from Essays	31	(7)
Michel De Montaigne
Book I	32	(6)
Hamlet	38	(51)
William Shakespeare
Act I	39	(11)
Act II	50	(9)
Act III	59	(12)
Act IV	71	(9)
Act V	80	(9)
Selections from the Ninety-Five Theses	89	(3)
Martin Luther
Selection from Don Quixote	92	(5)
Miguel De Cervantes
Part I	93	(4)
The Baroque Age: Glamour and Grandiosity: 1600--1715	97	(20)
Poem and Essay	97	(7)
Sister Juana Ines De La Cruz
``In which she condemns the inconsistency of men, who blame women for what they themselves have caused''
Selection from Respuesta a Sor Filotea (The Reply to Sister Filotea)	99	(5)
Selection from The Misanthrope	104	(5)
Moliere
Act I
Selection from Paradise Lost	109	(4)
John Milton
Book 1	110	(3)
Selection from Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave: A True History	113	(4)
Aphra Behn
The Baroque Age II: Revolutions in Scientific and Political Thought: 1600--1715	117	(17)
Selections from the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems---Ptolemaic and Copernican	117	(4)
Galileo Galilei
To the Discerning Reader	118	(2)
The First Day	120	(1)
Selection from Essays	121	(2)
Francis Bacon
Of Studies	122	(1)
Selections from Discourse on Method	123	(2)
Rene Descartes
Part II	124	(1)
Part IV	124	(1)
Selection from Leviathan	125	(3)
Thomas Hobbes
Part I	126	(2)
Selections from the Second Treatise of Civil Government	128	(6)
John Locke
Chapter IX	129	(1)
Chapter XIX	130	(4)
The Age of Reason: 1700--1789	134	(26)
Selection from ``Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?''	134	(4)
Immanuel Kant
Selection from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman	138	(3)
Mary Wollstonecraft
Introduction	139	(2)
Selections from Encyclopedie	141	(4)
Denis Diderot
Selection from Confessions	145	(2)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Book I, 1712--1719	146	(1)
Selections from Candide	147	(8)
Voltaire
Chapter I	148	(1)
Chapter II	149	(1)
Chapter III	150	(1)
Chapter IV	151	(1)
Chapter V	152	(1)
Chapter VI	153	(1)
Chapter XXX	154	(1)
Selections from An Essay on Man	155	(5)
Alexander Pope
Revolution, Reaction, and Cultural Response: 1760--1830	160	(39)
Selection from The Declaration of Independence	160	(1)
Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen	161	(2)
Selections from Pride and Prejudice	163	(5)
Jane Austen
Chapter I	164	(1)
Chapter II	165	(1)
Chapter III	166	(2)
``Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey''	168	(3)
William Wordsworth
Selection from Faust, Part I	171	(6)
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Night	172	(5)
Selection from Don Juan	177	(8)
George Gordon
Lord Byron
Canto I	178	(7)
Poems	185	(3)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
``Ozymandias''	186	(1)
``England in 1819''	186	(1)
``Ode to the West Wind''	186	(2)
Poems	188	(2)
John Keats
``Ode on a Grecian Urn''	189	(1)
``To Autumn''	190	(1)
Selections from Frankenstein	190	(4)
Mary Shelley
Chapter IV	191	(2)
Chapter V	193	(1)
Selection from Reason in History	194	(5)
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The Idea of History and Its Realization	195	(4)
The Triumph of the Bourgeoisie: 1830--1871	199	(44)
Selection from The Communist Manifesto	199	(4)
Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels
Selection from The Descent of Man	203	(2)
Charles Darwin
Selection from Jane Eyre	205	(5)
Charlotte Bronte
Chapter XXIII	206	(4)
Poems	210	(3)
Emily Dickinson
``There's a certain Slant of light''	211	(1)
``I felt a Funeral, in my Brain''	212	(1)
``Much Madness is divinest Sense---''	212	(1)
``I heard a Fly buzz---when I died---''	212	(1)
``Because I could not stop for Death---''	212	(1)
Selections from ``Song of Myself''	213	(5)
Walt Whitman
Selection from Madame Bovary	218	(7)
Gustave Flaubert
Chapter VIII	219	(6)
Selection from Hard Times	225	(3)
Charles Dickens
Chapter 1 The Key-note	226	(2)
Selections from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass	228	(5)
Frederick Douglass
Chapter 1	229	(2)
Chapter 7	231	(2)
``Ain't I a Woman?''	233	(2)
Sojourner Truth
Selection from ``On the Duty of Civil Disobedience''	235	(3)
Henry David Thoreau
Selection from Notes from Underground	238	(5)
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Part I	239	(4)
The Age of Early Modernism: 1871--1914	243	(15)
Selection from Thus Spake Zarathustra	243	(2)
Friedrich Nietzsche
Part I	244	(1)
Selection from Civilization and Its Discontents	245	(4)
Sigmund Freud
Chapter V	246	(3)
``The Story of an Hour''	249	(2)
Kate Chopin
Selection from Metamorphosis	251	(7)
Franz Kafka
The Age of the Masses and the Zenith of Modernism: 1914--1945	258	(32)
Selection from Night	258	(5)
Elie Wiesel
Selection from Ulysses	263	(2)
James Joyce
Selections from A Room of One's Own	265	(7)
Virginia Woolf
Selection from The Sound and the Fury	272	(4)
William Faulkner
April Seventh, 1928	273	(3)
Poems	276	(3)
William Butler Yeats
``The Second Coming''	277	(1)
``Sailing to Byzantium''	278	(1)
``The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock''	279	(2)
T. S. Eliot
Poems	281	(3)
Langston Hughes
``The Negro Speaks of Rivers''	282	(1)
``Theme for English B''	283	(1)
``Harlem''	283	(1)
``How It Feels to Be Colored Me''	284	(2)
Zora Neale Hurston
Selection from The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas	286	(4)
Gertrude Stein
``Stein on Picasso and Matisse''	287	(3)
The Age of Anxiety and Beyond: 1945--	290	(59)
Selection from The Second Sex	290	(5)
Simone De Beauvoir
Introduction	291	(4)
Selection from The Autobiography of Malcolm X	295	(6)
Malcolm X
Alex Haley
Chapter XI ``Saved''	296	(5)
Selection from ``Letter from a Birmingham Jail''	301	(4)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Selection from The Humanism of Existentialism	305	(4)
Jean-Paul Sartre
Selection from ``Stranger in the Village''	309	(5)
James Baldwin
Selection from Martha Quest	314	(5)
Doris Lessing
Chapter I	315	(4)
Selections from One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich	319	(6)
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
``A Supermarket in California''	325	(1)
Allen Ginsberg
Selection from One Hundred Years of Solitude	326	(4)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Chapter I	327	(3)
``Everyday Use''	330	(5)
Alice Walker
Selection from The Song of Solomon	335	(6)
Toni Morrison
Chapter I	336	(5)
Selection from The Woman Warrior	341	(8)
Maxine Hong Kingston
No Name Woman	342	(7)
Credits	349	(4)
Index	353