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History
and Statistics: Patterns of Family and Community Life
in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century France
Robert Schwartz
History
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Harriet Pollatsek
Mathematics
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Books available for purchase at the College Book Store:
Course Packet
The course packet contains additional readings which are indicated
in the syllabus by (CP). It is available in the History Department,
310 Skinner; a fee will be charged to offset the cost of duplication
of this packet and miscellaneous photocopying during the semester.
Books on reserve in the Library
- J. L. Flandrin, Families in Former Times
- B. Smith, Changing Lives. Women in European History Since 1700
- Books followed by (R) will also be placed on reserve.
Course Requirements
- Regular attendance.
- Informed participation in class discussions
- Several oral presentations
- A number of analytical essays
I. In Rural France of the Eighteenth Century
| Sept.5 |
Introduction: Differing
Views of Family and Community Life
David Popenoe, "The Breakup of the Family" [in late
20th-century America] (handout), published in 1991.
Pierre Jean-Baptise Le Grand d'Aussy: Voyage d'Auvergne [Voyage
in the Auvergne, an account of a voyage by a bourgeois traveler],
published in 1788.
F. Y. Bernard [1752-1842], Mémoires d'un Nonagenaire [Memoirs
of a Ninety-Year Old, reminiscences of a bourgeois priest who
lived in the area about which he wrote.], published ca. 1840.
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The Patriarch as Hero |
| Sept. 10 |
Rétif de la Bretonne,
My Father's Life (CP), introduction, books 1-3 |
| Sept. 12 |
Rétif de la Bretonne,
My Father's Life, Book 4 and Ploughman's Wife |
| Sept. 17 |
D.G. Carlton, "Happy
Families: (1) The Age of Innocence; (2) The New Eve" and Town
and Country" in his New Images of the Natural (CP) |
| Sept. 19 |
Mark Poster, "Patriarchy
and Sexuality: Rétif and the Peasant Family," The Eighteenth
Century 25 (1984): 217-240 (CP)
E. Le Roy Ladurie, "Rétif de la Bretonne as a Social
Anthropologist: Rural Burgundy in the Eighteenth-Century"
(CP) |
| Sept. 24 |
Power in the Village: Reconstructing
Patterns of Village Office Holding |
| Sept. 26 |
Assignments to be explained. |
II. History and Fiction: The Representations
of Rural Life by Honore de Balzac and George Sand
| Oct. 1 |
Balzac, selections from The Peasants
(ca. 1844) |
| Oct. 2 |
Lab: Film-"Impromptu" |
| Oct. 3 |
George Sand, The Devil's Pool (1848)
(CP) |
| Oct. 8 |
George Sand, The Devil's Pool |
| Oct. 10 |
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October Break
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III. Reconstructing the Lives of Ordinary People:
Célestine (1844-1933) and Others
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The Bourgeoisie
B. G. Smith, "The New Woman" in her Changing Lives,
chap. 8 (CP)
Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, (Cleveland,
Ohio: World Publishing Co., 1959), pp. 7-14 (birth and early childhood);
64-70 (impact of World War I), 105-115 (puberty and changing views
of parents), 134-141 (consciousness of her social class), 158-163
(girl's school), 186-189 (social attitudes on higher education
for young women); 198-202 (higher education, father's attitude,
her future to include work), 313-15 (practice teaching, thoughts
on womanhood, herself), 358-66 (the beginning of her friendship
with Jean-Paul Satre). [Zaza was Beauvoir's closest friend; Heraud
was an early friend and romantic interest at the Ecole Normale;
"Beaver" was the nickname he gave her to signify her
gregariousness] (CP) |
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IV. Conclusion: Variation, Continuity,
and Change
Reading to be assigned.
Second comment on Popenoe article due. |
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