Compiled by Janet Aikins, professor of English, and Edward Larkin, associate professor of German.

(Book titles are linked to online booksellers. Also check Dimond Library's online card catalog for these titles)

Nonfiction

The Sciences in Enlightened Europe, edited by William Clark, Jan Golinski and Simon Schaffer (1999)

Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future, Neil Postman, (1999)

What is Enlightenment?: 18th-Century Answers and 20th-Century Questions, edited by James Schmidt (1996)

The Enlightenment, an Interpretation, Peter Gay (1966)

The Age of Enlightenment: 18th-Century Philosophers, Isaiah Berlin (1970)

Cincinnatus: George Washington and the Enlightenment, Gary Wills (1984)

The Philosophy of the Enlightenment, Ernst Cassirer (in translation, 1951)

On the Aesthetic Education of Man, in a series of letters, Friedrich Schiller (1795)

What Is Enlightenment? Immanuel Kant (1784)

Some Thoughts concerning Education, John Locke (1693)

Fiction

A Journal of the Plague Year, Daniel Defoe (1722)

Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life, Samuel Richardson (1751)

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Henry Fielding (1749)

Evelina, or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World, Fanny Burney (1778)

The Analysis of Beauty, Written with a View of Fixing the Fluctuating Ideas of Taste, William Hogarth (1753)

The Sorrows of Young Werther, Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1774)

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