Class Readings

cropped-11108192773_63f39ca539_z.jpgREQUIRED TEXTS (available for purchase in UR Campus Book Store)

  1. William Beik, A Social and Cultural History of Early Modern France. (Cambridge, 2009). ISBN 978-0521709569
  2. The Political Testament of Cardinal Richelieu. (Wisconsin U. Press, 1964). ISBN 978-0299024246
  3. Louis XIV and Absolutism: A Brief Study with Documents. (Bedford/St. Martins, 2000). ISBN 978-0312133092
  4. Françoise de Graffigny, Letters from a Peruvian Woman (MLA, 1993). ISBN 978-0873527781
  5. Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary. (Penguin, 1984). ISBN 978-0140442571
  6. Robert Darnton, Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature (Norton, 2014). ISBN 978-0393242294

ADDITIONAL CLASS READINGS
Please check our BlackBoard site for class readings NOT listed above. They will be designated on the course schedule as “(on BB).” The link to the BlackBoard site is below:

blackboard.richmond.edu