Lists of Works
The list of works for Humanities 1, Fall 2026, will be published in early summer 2026. The list of works for Humanities 2, Winter 2027, will be published in early fall 2026.
HUM2: Global Humanities 2
Winter 2026 theme: Believability
HUM2, Winter 2026 TEXTS to PURCHASE:
Please purchase the books below. PDFs are provided on our Canvas site for the other assigned texts.
Do not substitute other translations or editions. If you find a copy somewhere different from the purchase links listed here, be sure to use the citation information and ISBN to ensure you’re purchasing the correct version.
Several copies will also be available at the local Hanover bookstore Still North for purchasing. These books will also be available for physical check out at Baker-Berry Library reserves for two-hour slots.
William Shakespeare, Macbeth Norton Critical Edition, 2025. ISBN: 978-1-324-04437-6
John Milton, Paradise Lost. (Kastan Edition) (Hackett Publishing, 2005). ISBN: 978-0-87220-733-2
HUM1: Global Humanities 1
Fall 2025 theme: DECADENCE
Subthemes: Splendor and Decline; Excess; Body; Ruins
HUM1, Fall 2025 TEXTS to PURCHASE
Please purchase the books below. PDFs are provided on our Canvas site for the other assigned texts.
Do not substitute other translations or editions. If you find a copy somewhere different from the purchase links listed here, be sure to use the citation information and ISBN to ensure you’re purchasing the correct version.
Several copies will also be available at the local Hanover bookstore Still North for purchasing. These books will also be available for physical check out at Baker-Berry Library reserves for two-hour slots.
Gaius Petronius, Satyricon, Oxford University Press, 2009
ISBN-10: 0199539219
ISBN-13: 978-0199539215
https://www.amazon.com/Satyricon-Oxford-Worlds-Classics/dp/0199539219/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=OpC0g&content-id=amzn1.sym.0fb2cce1-1ca4-439a-844b-8ad0b1fb77f7&pf_rd_p=0fb2cce1-1ca4-439a-844b-8ad0b1fb77f7&pf_rd_r=142-2659588-2927660&pd_rd_wg=a77og&pd_rd_r=af01f6ee-69fc-4376-a0ee-ed660e8e626c&ref_=aufs_ap_sc_dsk
Boethius, Ancius. The Consolation of Philosophy, trans. Victor Watts. Revised ed. Penguin Classics, 1999.
ISBN-10: 0140447806
ISBN-13 : 978-0140447804
https://www.amazon.com/Consolation-Philosophy-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140447806
Huysman, Joris-Karl. Against Nature
ISBN-10: 0140447636
ISBN-13 : 978-0140447637
https://www.amazon.com/Against-Nature-Rebours-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140447636
Han Kang. The Vegetarian. Hogarth, 2016.
ISBN-10 : 9781101906118
ISBN-13 : 978-1101906118
https://www.amazon.com/Vegetarian-Han-Kang/dp/1101906111