Literature of the Enlightenment Era

The following clip, "The Five Minute University," featuring Father Guido Sarducci (comedian Don Novello), is a few decades old, b...

The final exam was handed out in class today, you can also find it over there in the sidebar and here . In class on Wednesday, you will hav...

How has your understanding of the Enlightenment era changed since the beginning of the semester? Read on before you answer! On the first...

I'm a week behind in the blog grading.  The priority at the moment is getting your third papers graded, so I'm probably not going to...

Our discussion of Candide today ended on an optimistic note: This may not be the best of all possible worlds, but by consistently questionin...

The women represented in Candide are either the victims of rampant and unremitting sexual violence...or they are prostitutes (which does not...

1.  My facetious suggestion (you know, the one that produced dead silence: that the old lady is quite deliberately presented as "half-a...