Early Modern Europe

Enlightenment

18th century II

 

richardson - fielding

la mettrie - diderot - lessing

rousseau

mendelssohn - burke - greuze

helvetius - sterne - holbach

mozart - fragonard

american independence - samuel adams - haydn

nationalism - herder - jefferson - goethe

adam smith - gibbon - paine - bentham

german idealism - kant - fuseli - schiller

godwin - david - condorcet

shay's rebellion

• Timeline: 18th Century II (pdf)

• Enlightenment (IMHS)

• Richardson (1689-1761) (wiki)
• Richardson (channel4.com)
• 1740 Pamela
• 1747 Clarissa
• 1753 Sir Charles Grandison

• Fielding (1707-54) (wiki)
• Fielding
• Fielding (channel4.com)
• 1741 Shamela
• 1742 Joseph Andrews
• 1749 Tom Jones

• La Mettrie (1709) (atheisme.free.fr)
• 1745 Histoire naturelle de l'ame
• 1748 L'Homme machine
• Man a Machine
• 1751 L'Art de jouir

• Diderot (1713) (IEP)
• 1745 Essai sur le merite et la vertu
• 1746 Pensees philosophiques
• 1749 Lettre sur les aveugles

• Lessing (1729)
• 1748 The Young Scholar
• 1755 Miss Sara Sampson
• 1766 Laokoon
• 1767 Minna von Barnhelm
• 1772 Emilia Galotti
• 1779 Nathan the Wise
• 1780 Education of the Human Race (IMHS)

• Rousseau (1712) (IEP)
• 1750 Discours sur les sciences et les arts
• 1753 Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inegalite
• 1761 La nouvelle Heloise
• 1762 Du Contrat sociale; Emile
• 1782 Confessions (posth.)

• Mendelssohn (1729)
• 1755 Philosophical Discourses
• 1767 Phadon
• 1783 Jerusalem

• Burke (1729)
• 1756 Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
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• 1790 Reflections on Revolution in France

• Greuze (1725) (WG)
• 1756 Broken Eggs (metmuseum)
• 1763 Broken Mirror
• 1771 Broken Jug I
• 1780 Girl in Hat
• 1785 Broken Jug II
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• 1805 Napoleon

• Helvetius (1715) (IEP)
• 1758 De l'esprit
• 1772 De l'homme

• Sterne (1713-68) (wiki)
• Sterne (channel4.com)
• 1760 Tristram Shandy
• 1768 Sentimental Journey

• Holbach (1723) (SEP)
• 1761 Le Christianisme devoile
• 1770 Systeme de la nature
• 1772 Le Bon-Sens
• 1773 La politique naturelle
• 1773 Systeme Sociale
• 1776 La moralite universelle
• 1776 Ethocratie

• Mozart (1756-91) (wiki)
• Mozart (mozartproject)
• 1764 First Symphony
• 1767 First Piano Concerto
• 1782 Abduction from the Seraglio
• 1783 Mass in C minor
• 1786 Marriage of Figaro
• 1787 Don Giovanni

• Fragonard (1732) (WG)
• Fragonard (AC)
• 1766 The Swing
• 1770 Girl Reading
• 1778 The Bolt

• American Independence (IMHS)
• From Revolution to Reconstruction
• Liberty! The American Revolution (PBS)

• Samuel Adams (1722-1803) (wiki)
• 1772 "Rights of Colonists"

• Haydn (1732)
• 1772 Farewell Symphony
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• 1791-2 First Six London Symphonies
• 1794-5 Second Six London Symphonies
• 1796 Trumpet Concerto
• 1798 The Creation
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• 1801 The Seasons

• Nationalism (IMHS)

• Herder (1744)
• 1772 Origin of Language
• 1784 Philosophy of History of Mankind

• Jefferson (1743)
• 1774 Summary View
• 1776 Declaration of Independence
• 1785 Notes on the State of Virginia
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• 1801 Manual of Parliamentary Practice

• Goethe (1749-1832) (wiki)
• 1774 Sorrows of Young Werther
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• 1796 Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
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• 1808 Faust I
• 1810 Elective Affinities

• Adam Smith (1723)
• 1776 Wealth of Nations

• Gibbon (1737)
• 1776 Decline and Fall of Roman Empire I
• 1781 Volumes II and III
• 1788 Volumes IV-VI

• Paine (1737)
• Thomas Paine Library
• 1776 Common Sense
• 1776-83 American Crisis
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• 1791-2 Rights of Man
• 1793-5 Age of Reason

• Bentham (1748) (IEP)
• Bentham Project
• 1776 Fragment on Government
• 1787 Defence of Usury
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• 1789 Principles of Morals & Legislation
• 1791 Panopticon
• 1796 Management of the Poor
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• 1817 Table of the Springs of Action

• German Idealism (IEP)

• Kant (1724) (IEP)
• 1781 Critique of Pure Reason
• 1783 Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics
• 1784 What is Enlightenment?
• 1788 Critique of Practical Reason
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• 1790 Critique of Judgment
• 1795 Perpetual Peace
• 1797 Metaphysics of Morals
• 1798 Conflict of Faculties

• Fuseli (1741) (WG)
• 1781 Nightmare
• 1782 Three Witches
• 1784 Lady Macbeth
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• 1799 Silence
• 1806 Count Ugolino

• Schiller (1759)
• 1781 Die Rauber
• 1787 Don Carlos
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• 1795 Letters on Aesthetic Education
• 1796 Naive and Sentimental Poetry
• 1798 Wallenstein
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• 1800 Mary Stuart
• 1804 Wilhelm Tell

• Godwin (1756) (Stanford)
• 1783 Life of William Pitt
• 1788 English Peerage
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• 1793 Political Justice
• 1794 Caleb Williams
• 1795 Political Justice, 2nd edition
• 1797 Marriage & death of Mary Wollstonecraft
• 1798 Enquirer
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• 1799 St. Leon
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• 1817 Mandeville
• 1824-8 History of the Commonwealth
• 1831 Thoughts on Man

• David (1748) (WG)
• 1784 Oath of Horatii
• 1787 Death of Socrates
• 1788 Lavoisier and Wife
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• 1791 Tennis Court Oath
• 1793 Death of Marat
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• 1800 Madame Recamier
• 1805-7 Consecration of Emperor Napoleon
• 1812 Napoleon in His Study
• 1817 Portrait of Sieyes

• Condorcet (1743) (IMHS)
• 1785 Probability of Majority Decisions
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• 1791 "Mathematical Treatment of Moral & Political Sciences"
• 1795 Progress of Human Spirit (posth.)

• 1786-87 Shay's Rebellion

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