| Description |
An exploration of Enlightenment philosophy as it was practiced and theorized across the Atlantic. Connections between new frontiers of knowledge in literary and epistemological traditions are considered through such questions as whether the radical skepticism of the 1690s provoked the Salem Witchcraft Trials. Taking on one of the key methodological issues in early American studies, the course asks whether a transatlantic culture of Enlightenment becomes more uniquely American as one charts its transformation through eighteenth-century revivals and revolutions. |