3VAEMHIB : Histoire des idées britanniques, XVIe-XVIIIe siècles

Jeudi: 10h-11h30.

Ressources supplémentaires en ligne : https://www.diigo.com/user/Yanbrailowsky/private_life

Télécharger les brochures de documents (2 fichiers : documents & images) : http://ufr-lce.parisnanterre.fr/organisation-et-contacts/equipe-enseignante/pages-des-enseignants-chercheurs/brailowsky-yan/yan-brailowsky-documents-enseignement-787202.kjsp

Calendrier des séances

Le travail indiqué ci-dessous est à effectuer pour le jour indiqué. IMPORTANT: le programme est susceptible d’être modifié.

1. Week 1: 12 Sept.

Introduction: the emergence of a private sphere in early modern England.

• In class: OED on privacy; J. Harington (‘In prayse of private life’); Erasmus (‘The Schoolmaster’s Admonitions’)

2. Week 2: 19 Sept.

Introduction (continued).

The Family (I): The Patriarchal model, Marriage and Divorce

• Read: texts by T. More (‘Utopia’), F. Bacon (‘Essays’), J. Milton (‘Divorce’)
• Listen: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b046ntnz (45mn), on the Philosophy of solitude
• Listen: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003hyd3 (45mn), on Friendship
• In class: Argyll (‘Instructions to a son’); Auction catalogue (‘At the Green-Dragon’); Robert Filmer (‘Patriarcha’).

3. Week 3: 26 Sept.

The Family (II): Wives, widows, spinsters, servants, bachelors, children…

• Read: texts by J. Locke (‘Second Treatise on Civil Government’), M. Astell (‘Reflections on Mariage’).
• Listen: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00548c2 (45mn), on marriage
• In class: J. Swift (‘Directions to servants’)

4. Week 4: 3 Oct.

Religion and Privacy: Protestantism and private devotion

• Read: Calvin (‘Institutes’).
• Listen: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0054631 (45mn), on the Individual
• Listen: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qvqpz (45mn), on Calvinism
• In class: Wettenghall (‘Enter into thy closet’); John Beadle (‘Journal’).

5. Week 5: 10 Oct.

The home: Architecture, material culture and domestic life (I)

• Listen: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004y24y (45mn), on tea
• View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgKpw-vAL88&list=PLhiJDLjqOWUJyj1L0dVctumrQyRXHZ4Dl (several documentaries on Georgian architecture)
• Read: Defoe, Journal of the Plague Year
• In class: bring brochure with pictures.

6. Week 6: 17 Oct.

Privacy and Sociability (I)

• Read: J. Habermas (‘The structural transformation of the public sphere’)
• Listen: First chapters of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: https://librivox.org/pride-and-prejudice-by-jane-austen-2/ (5mn per chapter) / alternate: view the 1995 BBC adaptation: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112130/
• Listen: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004y29m (45mn), on politeness
• In class: Joseph Addison (‘The Spectator’ n. 403, n. 568, n. 9).

7. Week 7: 24 Oct.

Privacy and the Modern State

• Listen: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0080xph (45mn), on the Divine right of kings
• Read: John Mackenzie; John Evelyn
• In class: F. Bacon (‘The charge… touching duells’); John Bennett (‘A discourse against… duelling’); Bernard Mandeville (‘Fable of the Bees’).

8. Week 8: 31 Oct. Break

9. Week 9: 7 Nov.

• DEVOIR À RENDRE le 7 nov.

Privacy and the Self: Fashion and Philosophy

• Read: J. Locke (‘Essay Concerning Human Understanding’, II.27)
• Listen: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p005487n (45mn), on sensibility.
• Watch: https://www.artandobject.com/video/recreating-looks-georgian-portraiture (22mn), on Georgian fashion.
• In class: bring brochure with pictures.

10. Week 10: 14 Nov.

Writing and reading practices. Intimacy.

• Listen: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00775dh (45mn), on epistolary literature
• Read: Diary of Samuel Pepys
• Read: Memoirs of a Lady of Quality
• In class: Diary of Ralph Josselin; Fielding (‘Shamela’ extracts).

11. Week 11: 21 Nov.

Correction of mid-term exam. Revisions

Privacy and outdoor spaces.

• Listen: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ft63q (45mn), on the Great Fire of London (1666)
• Listen: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rfhx2 (45mn), on the City, a history
• Read: H. Wooley, The Queen-like Closet
• In class: A. Pope (‘Epistle IV’)
• Bring brochure with pictures

12. Week 12: 28 Nov. Finals

13. Week 13: 6 Dec. Study week

14. Week 14: 13 Dec. Correction finals

Class policies

Please read them carefully and seriously. This is a computer-free class; all notes must be taken in notebooks. The use of computers, smart and cell phones is strictly prohibited; exception for full compliance to this rule will be granted only for students with a documented medical need. Non-web connected Kindles or other eReaders are permitted. Cell phones should be turned off and put away, beyond temptation’s reach. If I observe you texting or web-surfing in class, you will be dismissed from class and marked absent.

Plagiarism cases will be systematically prosecuted and can result in expulsion from the university.

Modalités de contrôle

• Session 1 : contrôle continu. La note finale est la moyenne de deux devoirs écrits (30% pour le premier, 70% pour le second), dont au moins un devoir sur table de 1h30 (commentaire et/ou dissertation).
• Formule dérogatoire session 1 : 1 devoir sur table (commentaire de texte, 2h).
• Session 2 : 1 devoir sur table (commentaire de texte, 2h).

Reading list / Bibliography

Books:

• Ronald Bedford, Lloyd Davis, Philippa Kelly, Early Modern English Lives : Autobiography and self-representation, 1500-1660, Farnham : Ashgate, 2007.
• Bill Bryson, At Home : A Short History of Private Life, Doubleday, 2010.
• Roger Chartier (ed.), Histoire de la vie privée, vol. 3 : De la Renaissance aux Lumières, Paris : Seuil, 1986. Translated in English as : A History of Private Life, vol. 3 : Passions of the Renaissance, ed. Roger Chartier, trans. Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1989.
• David Cressy, Birth, Marriage, and Death : Ritual, religion, and the life-cycle in Tudor and Stuart England, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1997.
• Susan Frye, Pens and Needles : Women’s Textualities in Early Modern England, Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010.
• Michael McKeon, The Secret History of Domesticity : Public, Private, and the Division of Knowledge, Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
• Lena Cowen Orlin, Locating Privacy in Tudor London, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
• Michelle Perrot, Histoire de chambres, Paris : Seuil, 2009.
• Adam Smyth, Autobiography in Early Modern England, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
• Amanda Vickery, The Gentleman’s Daughter : Women’s Lives in Georgian England. London : Yale University Press, 1998.
• Keith Wrightson, English Society : 1580-1680, London : Routledge, 2003.

Online resources/podcasts:¹Some of these podcasts may not be freely available.

• The Geffrye Museum : http://www.geffrye-museum.org.uk/
• Site consacré à PhilippeAriès : http://philippe-aries.histoweb.net/spip.php?article92
• ‘Georgian Cities’ : http://www.18thc-cities.paris-sorbonne.fr/
• Diaries of the 17th century: https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/civil_war_revolution/diaries_01.shtml
• History of European costume/fashion: https://historyofeuropeanfashion.wordpress.com/
• Victoria and Albert Museum: Neoclassicism (http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/s/style-guide-neo-classicism/ ), Regency Classicism (http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/s/style-guide-neo-classicism/ )
• In Our Time, with Melvyn Bragg. Includes podcasts on ‘Politeness’, ‘Tea’, ‘Marriage’, ’Sensibility’, and other topics. See homepage: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl
• Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys : The BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation, with Hattie Naylor, Katherine Jakeways, Kris Marshall. BBC Radio 4 (2014) : https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0162gs7
• Amanda Vickery, A History of Private Life (30-part BBC Radio4 series) : https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mvfb7/episodes/guide
• Amanda Vickery, At Home with the Georgians (3-part BBC TV series) : https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wkmmj