Readings for Next Week

Week 10: Boredom and Interest

TUESDAY

                        *Tristram Shandy,

(focus on sermon scene, “chestnut” scene, and other

descriptions of boredom, interest, or disinterest)

                        Johnson’s Rambler and Idler (on ANGEL)

                        Spacks, Boredom, Intro and Chap. 1

                        *Fielding, Covent Garden Journal

                                    No. 4, A Modern Glossary, 153-157

No. 6, Taste in Books and Reading 167-172               

                       

THURSDAY

                                   

                        Smith, The Wealth of Nations (PE)

                        Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees (PE 242-253)

                       

Bring Johnson’s Rambler & Idler, cont.

*Fielding, Covent Garden Journal, cont.

No. 4, A Modern Glossary, 153-157

No. 6, Taste in Books and Reading (167-172)

                        Optional:  Pope, Essay on Criticism [A])

                                         Addison,  “The Royal Exchange” (PE, 480)

                                         Emmott, see Readings for Week 9