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Arnold Weinstein
Brown University
Ph.D., Harvard University
 

Arnold Weinstein is the Edna and Richard Salomon Distinguished Professor at Brown University, where he has been teaching for over 35 years. He received his undergraduate degree in Romance Languages from Princeton University and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University.

Professor Weinstein chaired the Advisory Council on Comparative Literature at Princeton University, is the sponsor of Swedish Studies at Brown, and is actively involved in the American Comparative Literature Association.

Among his many academic honors, research grants, and fellowships, Professor Weinstein has received the Younger Humanist Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a Fulbright Senior Lecturer Award as a visiting professor at Stockholm University, Brown University’s award as best teacher in the humanities, Professeur Invité in American Literature at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, and a Fellowship for University Professors from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

His book, Northern Arts: The Breakthrough of Scandinavian Literature and Art from Ibsen to Bergman (Princeton University Press, 2008), was named one of the 25 Best Books of 2009 by The Atlantic.

Dr. Weinstein is the author of many other books, including Fictions of the Self: 1550–1800 (1981); Nobody’s Home: Speech, Self, and Place in American Fiction from Hawthorne to DeLillo (1993); and A Scream Goes Through The House: What Literature Teaches Us About Life (2003).
 
Courses by this professor:

20th-Century American Fiction  
By Professor Arnold Weinstein, Brown University
Professor Arnold Weinstein explores the works of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and others in this remarkable lecture series. Like no one else in the world, Americans grow up believing—or imagining—that they are masters of a destiny without constraint. How did this national ethos unleash a body of fiction dramatically different from anything that came before?
Classic Novels & Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition (Set)  
By Professor Arnold Weinstein, Brown University
Explore literature's most iconic writers and their unforgettable masterpieces. Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition, 2nd Edition surveys the lives and works of over 70 of Western literature's masterful writers, including Homer, Shakespeare, and Virginia Woolf. Then, investigate the dazzling, surprising, and deeply moving worlds revealed through great works such as Moby-Dick, The Brothers Karamazov, and As I Lay Dying in Classic Novels: Meeting the Challenge of Great Literature.
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$275 		Classic Novels: Meeting the Challenge of Great Literature  
By Professor Arnold Weinstein, Brown University
More than a mere "slice of life," classic novels perform a sort of miracle, jolting us to see the remarkable, often provocative truths that underlie the human condition. To experience these extraordinary novels is to ask deep and sometimes unsettling questions about our lives and our world. Join us for an epic journey, as you traverse three centuries, sojourn in foreign lands, and enter remarkable realms of the imagination.
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$480 		Classic Novels: Meeting the Challenge of Great Literature & Building Great Sentences: Exploring the Writer's Craft (Set)  
By Professor Arnold Weinstein, Brown University
Get a fascinating window into the power of the written word with this two-course set that explores the essence of great writing. Experience the startling brilliance that makes a work of literature a "classic" in Classic Novels: Meeting the Challenge of Great Literature. Then, investigate the myriad ways we think about, talk about, and write sentences in Building Great Sentences: Exploring the Writer's Craft.
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$695 		Classic Novels: Meeting the Challenge of Great Literature & The History of World Literature (Set)  
By Professor Arnold Weinstein, Brown University
Read between the lines of history's greatest literary masterpieces in this insightful two-course set. First, discover the startling brilliance and unique characteristics that make a work of literature a "classic" in Classic Novels: Meeting the Challenge of Great Literature. Then, travel around the world and sample diverse literary masterworks from ancient Greece, Classical Japan, postwar Britain, Stalinist Russia, and more in The History of World Literature.
Classics of American Literature  
By Professor Arnold Weinstein, Brown University
Classic stories and poems of American literature are found in the pages of Franklin, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Dickinson, Twain, Whitman, Faulkner, and many others. When was the last time you read them? Possibly not as recently as you'd like. Why? Not because you wouldn't love it. But perhaps the demands of your daily life or some other reason have prevented this pleasure. Now, here is the opportunity to gain an extraordinary familiarity with each of these authors within a manageable amount of time, as well as review the great works you may already know.
Classics of American Literature & Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition, 2nd Edition (Set)  
By Professor Arnold Weinstein, Brown University
Now is your chance to discover more insights about the literature that has defined our lives. Study the classic stories and poems that illustrate our great nation's character in Classics of American Literature. Then, meet more than 60 of Western civilization's greatest authors and unpack their unforgettable works in Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition, 2nd Edition.
Classics of British Literature & Classic Novels: Meeting the Challenge of Great Literature (Set)  
By Professor Arnold Weinstein, Brown University
Immerse yourself in some of the world's most absorbing and unforgettable literary experiences—without having to read thousands of pages! Classics of British Literature is a rare chance for you to step beyond the surface of some of this country's most cherished works and experience the times they came from and the issues with which their authors grappled. Classic Novels: Meeting the Challenge of Great Literature reveals how timeless novels such as Moby-Dick and To the Lighthouse allow you to see the remarkable and often provocative truths that underlie the human condition.
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$990 		Classics of British Literature & Classics of American Literature (Set)  
By Professor Arnold Weinstein, Brown University
Discover the fascinating ways that literary masterpieces from Great Britain and the United States reflect the spirit of their respective countries in this engrossing two-course set. In Classics of British Literature, step beyond the surface of works by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dickens, and others to experience the diverse issues with which they grappled. Then, learn how the greatest works of our own literary canon—including "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and The Great Gatsby—magnificently illustrate what it means to be an American in Classics of American Literature.
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$765 		Emerson, Thoreau, and the Transcendentalist Movement & Classics of American Literature (Set)  
By Professor Arnold Weinstein, Brown University
Explore the American spirit through the perspective of its unique philosophical movement and its wealth of literary masterpieces in this two-course set. In Emerson, Thoreau, and the Transcendentalist Movement, award-winning Professor Ashton Nichols introduces you to these two remarkable American thinkers and the diverse group of intellectual activists, literary figures, and social reformers whose ideas would remake American society. Classics of American Literature, a grand, 84-lecture course, covers some of the greatest works of American literature by Irving, Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, Whitman, Thoreau, Twain, James, Faulkner, Crane, Hemingway, Frost, and Steinbeck, and many others.
Great American Bestsellers: The Books That Shaped America & Classics of American Literature (Set)  
By Professor Arnold Weinstein, Brown University
Uncover fascinating new ways to look at and read our nation's breathtaking literary heritage in this course set taught by two expert literary scholars. In Great American Bestsellers: The Books That Shaped America, embark on a pointed 24-lecture tour of key best-selling works in the history of U.S. literature and what they reveal about the cultural climate of our nation at particular points in its history. Next, explore more than two centuries of the best literature in our nation's literary canon in Classics of American Literature.
Soul and the City: Art, Literature, and Urban Living  
By Professor Arnold Weinstein, Brown University
Soul and the City: Art, Literature, and Urban Living is an absorbing look at the complex artistic representations of city life from the 18th to the 20th centuries. Professor Arnold Weinstein selects particular moments and cities to illustrate a variety of urban themes including anonymity, orientation, and exchange. Throughout these lectures you'll visit St. Petersburg before the Russian Revolution, Victorian London, and other intriguing locales. More importantly, you'll view these and other cities through the eyes and art of people including the painter Edvard Munch, the poet Charles Baudelaire, the authors Daniel Defoe and Theodore Dreiser, the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, and more.
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$520 		Understanding Literature and Life: Drama, Poetry and Narrative  
By Professor Arnold Weinstein, Brown University
This course is an introduction to the major texts of Western culture, from antiquity onward. It stresses the uniqueness of literary language, the formal and generic conventions of writing, the position that literature occupies as a site for historical and ideological conflicts, and the continuing human significance of the great works of the past and present.