Course Introduction and Death of the Old Regime?

This book begins by outlining and illustrating the characteristics of the Enlightenment c.1740-80 and explores how it led into Romanticism. The first texts consists of works rooted in the Enlightenment which challenge the social and religious status quo and the Enlightenment itself, Mozarts's opera Don Giovanni and writings on religion and morals by Hume, Rosseau and Sade. It also introduces you to the main facts and broad implications of the French Revolution.