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This course will explore some key moments in the literature and thought of pre-revolutionary France, focusing on the ways that Renaissance and Enlightenment authors used literature to create alternative spaces from which to critique and rethink the worlds in which they lived. Readings will include Rabelais, Montaigne, Fontenelle, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau. Assessed work will include an oral presentation and a research paper on a topic of your choice. Throughout the course you will acquire finer critical and analytical skills, polish your oral and written French, and familiarize yourself with advanced research methods in the human sciences. Recommended course background: at least one semester of Introduction à la littérature française (I or II). For more info see http://grll.jhu.edu/french/undergraduate/courses/