"Alchemies of Mind":
The Emotional Landscape of Classical Nineteenth-Century Texts
Bryn Mawr College
Spring 2006
Lecture and Discussion Notes
Day 1: What you feel/see/think...and the history of doing this
Day 2: Turning the screw...
Day 3: And yet another turn in the screw of interpretation...
Day 4: What is an Emotion?
Day 5: The Biology of Emotion (with Peter Brodfuehrer)
Day 6:
Moby-Dick
(the first 100 pages)
Day 7:
Moby-Dick
(the next 100 pages)
Day 8:
Moby-Dick
(the third quarter)
Day 9:
Moby-Dick
(Finale)
Day 10: Reader-Response Theory
Day 11: "Freedom is a Feeling": Reading
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Day 12: "On Learning to Generalize, and Taking Enlarged Views"
Day 13: "Realness," its Relation to Reading...
and the Relation of them both to... Sacrifice (?!)
Day 14: Welcome to the Promised Land!
Day 15: Welcome to "The Prison Door"
(aka Chapter I,
The Scarlet Letter
)
Day 16: Emotion, Intuition and "Hot" Thinking (with Marc Schulz)
Day 17: Back to High School: Compare and Converse
Day 18: Moving from the Crowd...Back to the Individual
Day 19: The History of the Passions and Emotions (with Amelie Rorty)
Day 20: On Rational Choice and Economic Behavior (with David Ross)
Day 21: Beginning
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
--"The Profit of Unconscious Cerebration"
Day 22: Getting Out of the Rut --and "Feeling the Dooziness"
Day 23: "Childhood is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies"/The Place Where Jokes Are Allowed
Day 24: The Resurrection of Huck--and of Racism?
Day 25: "Nothing's sacred": Emerson Re-done, in Poetry and Drama
Day 26: "Myself the Only Constant Friend": Exploring Margaret Fuller
Days 27-28: Final Performances
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