From Samuel Morton's collection of Native American skulls to William James's writings on the consciousness of lost limbs, this book examines a startling array of artifacts that reflect nineteenth-century thinking about madness, race, and gender. According to Thomas A. Cooley, what unites these seemingly disconnected cultural fragments is the governing model of "psychology", as it was just then coming to be called, that shaped the American understanding of "mind" before the age of Freud.
Essentially a "faculty" psychology, this model conceived of the human mind as a set of separate roomlike...
From Samuel Morton's collection of Native American skulls to William James's writings on the consciousness of lost limbs, this book examines a startli...
Back to the Lake 3e includes new chapters on writing paragraphs and using rhetorical modes in academic writing--which shows how the patterns taught in this book are used in the kinds of writing college students are expected to do. New readings are on timely topics that will engage students. Templates and marginal notes that explicitly link the readings and the writing instruction help students apply the lessons in this book to their own writing.
Back to the Lake 3e includes new chapters on writing paragraphs and using rhetorical modes in academic writing--which shows how the patterns ...
