VOLUME D: 17th AND18th CENTURIES.
CROSS-CURRENTS: COURTS AND COMMONERS.
The World the Mughals Made. Babur (1483-1530) tr. Wheeler M. Thackston, from
The History of Babur.
Jahangir (1569-1627) tr. Wheeler M. Thackston, from
The Memoirs of Jahangir.
Sauda (Urdu, 1713-1781) tr. Ralph Russell and Khurshidul Islam,
How to Earn a Living in Hindustan.
Mir Muhammad Taqi Mir (1723-1810), Selected Couplets, tr. Ralph Russell and Khurshidul Islam, from
The Autobiography tr. C. M. Naim.
Barnarsidass, from
Half a Tale (Hindi, 1641) tr. Mukund Lath.
Chikamatsu Mon'Zaemon (1653-1725). Love Suicide at Amijima (1712), a puppet play tr. Donald Keene.
Resonance: Hokuzumi Ozumi Ikan,
Chikamatsu on the Art of Puppet Theatre.
Ihara Saikaku (1642-1693). From Japan's Eternal Storehouse (1688) tr. G.W. Sargent. Cao Xueqin (1715-63). From
The Story of the Stone, tr.David Hawkes and John Minford.
Resonance: Shen Fu: from
Six Records of a Floating Life.
The Ottoman Empire. The Story of Leyla and Mejnun.
Mihri Hatun (d. 1506).
Fuzuli (d. 1556).
Nedim (1681-1730) tr. Andrews, Black, and Kalpakli.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762),
The Turkish Embassy Letters.
To Alexander Pope (1 April 1717).
To Sarah Chiswell (1 April 1717).
To Lady Mar (18 April 1717).
THE ENLIGHTENMENT IN EUROPE.
Jean Baptiste Poquelin [Moliere] (1622-1673). The School for Wives.
Perspectives: Court Culture and Female Authorship. Marie-Madeline Pioche de La Vergne, Comtesse de La Lafayette.
The Countess of Tende, tr. April Alliston.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne.
From
Letters.
Elisabeth Charlotte von Pfalz, Ducheese D'Orleans.
From
Letters.
Madeleine de Scudery.
From
Clelie, tr. April Alliston.
Katherine Philips.
Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor.
From
The Enchantments of Love: Amorous and Exemplary Novels. Ann Yearsley.
To Mr. ****, an Unlettered Poet, on Genius Unimproved.
Mary, Lady Chudleigh.
From
The Ladies Defence.
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea.
The Introduction.
Friendship between Ephelia and Ardelia.
Spleen.
Aphra Behn (1640-1689),
Oroonoko.
Resonance: George Warren: from
An Impartial Description of Surinam.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745).
The Lady's Dressing Room.
Resonance: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu:
The Reasons that Induced Dr. S to Write `The Lady's Dressing Room'.
Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift.
Gulliver's Travels,
Part 4. A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms.
Perspectives: Journeys In Search of the Self. Evliya Celebi (1611-1684).
From
The Book of Travels.
Matsuo Basho (1644-94).
[Selected Hokku] tr. Haruo Shirane, from
Narrow Road to the Interior tr. Helen McCullough.
Denis Diderot.
From
Supplement to the Voyage of Bougainville.
Olaudah Equiano.
From
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano.
Charles de Secondat, Baron De la Br138>e et De Montesquieu.
From
Persian Letters.
Francoise de Graffigny.
From
Letters of a Peruvian Woman.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744).
The Rape of the Lock.
From
An Essay on Man.
Francois Marie Arouet [Voltaire] (1694-1778).
Candide, tr. Pearson.
Resonance: Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, From
Theodicy.
Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749-1838).
Libretto to
Don Giovanni.
Perspectives: Liberty and Libertines. Ihara Saikaku (1642-1693).
From
Life of a Sensuous Woman (1686), tr. Chris Drake.
Tsangyang Gyatsu.
from
Love Poems of the Sixth Dalai Lama.
John Wilmont, Earl of Rochester.
The Imperfect Enjoyment.
Satyr Against Reason and Mankind.
Immanuel Kant.
An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment? Jean-Jacques Rosseau.
From The Social Contract.
Mary Wollstonecraft.
From
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
Anna Laetitia Barbauld.
The Rights of Women.
Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos.
From
Dangerous Liaisons.
Giacomo Casanova.
From
The History of My Life. Donatien-Alphonse-Francois, Marquis de Sade.
From
Philosophy in the Boudoir.
Eliza Haywood.
Fantomina or,
Love in a Maze.
