[click to enlarge]	"I am the Husband, and all the whole Isle is my lawfull Wife; I am the Head, and it is my Body." [King James I, 1604]         "Nature, (the Art whereby God hath made and governes the World is by the Art of man, as is many other things, so in this also imitated, that it can make an Artificial Animal .... by Art is created that great Leviathan called a Common-Wealth, or State ... which is but an artificial Man." [Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, (1651)].
Rubens, Allegory of the Triumph of Peace, National Gallery, London	Syllabus:click here

Course description: This course will explore through a wide variety of texts the complex of attitudes centering on the body that bound the individual and the whole in the early modern world, and that was gradually displaced by mechanical and economic assumptions. It will examine the implications of the assumption that the body in all its manifestations was inherently political.	Format of the course:  The course will operate as a seminar. Its focus will be reading and discussion; attendance and participation are essential.
Requirements:              One short (c.5-6 pp.) paper, due 10.12.99              One long (c.15-20 pp.) paper, due 12.19.99              (You must discuss the topic with DH)              Discussion	Required texts: Shakespeare, Coriolanus and Winter's Tale  M. Sommerville, Sex and Subjection
Office Hours & Location: Thursday 1-3 pm, and by appointment  Busch 221/118	Other readings will be distributed in class.
E-mail: dmhirst@artsci.wustl.edu	Department page

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