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• catalog abstract "From Samuel Morton's collection of Native American skulls to William James's writings on the consciousness of lost limbs, this book examines an array of artifacts that reflect nineteenth-century thinking about madness, race, and gender. According to Thomas W. 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 compartments, each with its proper office or capacity. Under this architecture, a healthy mind was characterized by the harmonious interrelation of these faculties; madness, conversely, was believed to occur when the "chambers" of the mind became cut off from one another. In addition, gender and racial qualities were associated with different mental functions: the reasoning intellect took on a "masculine" and "white" valence, while the emotions and appetitive faculties were considered "feminine" or "black." What was thought to be true for the individual also applied to the group. Thus a balanced mind, a happy marriage, and a strong nation all drew their legitimacy from the same essentially racist and sexist model, one that posited a union of parts arrayed in an ostensibly natural hierarchy of authority. In effect a master/slave psychology, this paradigm prevailed in American thought until the end of the nineteenth century. As Cooley shows, it profoundly shaped artifacts of American high culture as well as low-from the writings of Hawthorne, Stowe, Douglass, Dickinson, and the Jameses to political speeches, medical treatises, phrenological sculptures, and sideshow exhibitions.".
• catalog contributor b12171684.
• catalog coverage "United States Civilization 19th century.".
• catalog created "c2001.".
• catalog date "2001".
• catalog date "c2001.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
• catalog description "From Samuel Morton's collection of Native American skulls to William James's writings on the consciousness of lost limbs, this book examines an array of artifacts that reflect nineteenth-century thinking about madness, race, and gender. According to Thomas W. 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 compartments, each with its proper office or capacity. Under this architecture, a healthy mind was characterized by the harmonious interrelation of these faculties; madness, conversely, was believed to occur when the "chambers" of the mind became cut off from one another. In addition, gender and racial qualities were associated with different mental functions: the reasoning intellect took on a "masculine" and "white" valence, while the emotions and appetitive faculties were considered "feminine" or "black." What was thought to be true for the individual also applied to the group. Thus a balanced mind, a happy marriage, and a strong nation all drew their legitimacy from the same essentially racist and sexist model, one that posited a union of parts arrayed in an ostensibly natural hierarchy of authority. In effect a master/slave psychology, this paradigm prevailed in American thought until the end of the nineteenth century. As Cooley shows, it profoundly shaped artifacts of American high culture as well as low-from the writings of Hawthorne, Stowe, Douglass, Dickinson, and the Jameses to political speeches, medical treatises, phrenological sculptures, and sideshow exhibitions.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-281) and index.".
• catalog description "Introduction: Vestiges: Little Shop of Race and Gender -- Holmes and the Parkman Murder -- And Gentlemen of the Club -- Back Brain, Front Brain -- Professor Gould Meets the Hottentot Venus -- My First Hermaphrodite -- A Geography of the Mind -- Phrenology and the Roots of Human Motives -- Psych 101 in 1825: The Scots Bring Common Sense to America -- The House of Madness -- The Collocation of the Stones: Sanity as Mental Balance -- Foucault's Beast -- The Second Test of Madness: Ahab's Ivory Obsession -- American Africanism -- The Black Messiah of Jerusalem, Va. -- The Polygenetic Hypothesis and the Mind of the Savage -- Hegel's Africa -- Mount Prognathous -- Habeas Corpus: Rutherford B. Hayes and the Case of Nancy Farrer -- Romancing the Shadow -- Colonel Higginson to the Rescue -- The Black Imp in White America -- The Haunted Mind -- The Whale: Male or Female? -- The Steeple -- Bachelor's Bower: The Fearful Female -- Asylum in the Woods -- A Refined Disgust -- The Pond in the Eye of the Mind -- Thoreau's Old Flame -- Uncle Tom's Wagon -- Mrs. Stowe's Fantasy of the White Black Man -- A More Perfect Union -- The Black Knight -- The White Captive -- Frederick Douglass and the Whiteness of Blackness -- The Heroic Slave: White Rhetoric, Black Revolution -- The Abolitionist from Ohio: Huck Finn Grows Up -- Uncle Tom and Aunt Jim -- Dementia: The Pit -- Out of the Black Depths; Or the Transformation -- As the Twig Is Bent -- Memory: The Ebony Cabinet -- The Hill of Difficulty and the Fall of Man -- The Marriage of Head and Heart.".
• catalog extent "xxvi, 302 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Ivory leg in the ebony cabinet.".
• catalog identifier "1558492844 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Ivory leg in the ebony cabinet.".
• catalog issued "2001".
• catalog issued "c2001.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press,".
• catalog relation "Ivory leg in the ebony cabinet.".
• catalog spatial "United States Civilization 19th century.".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog spatial "United States.".
• catalog subject "150/.973/09034 21".
• catalog subject "2001 I-916".
• catalog subject "BF 575.P9 C774i 2001".
• catalog subject "BF103 .C66 2001".
• catalog subject "History of Medicine United States.".
• catalog subject "History, 19th Century United States.".
• catalog subject "Prejudice United States.".
• catalog subject "Psychology United States History 19th century.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Vestiges: Little Shop of Race and Gender -- Holmes and the Parkman Murder -- And Gentlemen of the Club -- Back Brain, Front Brain -- Professor Gould Meets the Hottentot Venus -- My First Hermaphrodite -- A Geography of the Mind -- Phrenology and the Roots of Human Motives -- Psych 101 in 1825: The Scots Bring Common Sense to America -- The House of Madness -- The Collocation of the Stones: Sanity as Mental Balance -- Foucault's Beast -- The Second Test of Madness: Ahab's Ivory Obsession -- American Africanism -- The Black Messiah of Jerusalem, Va. -- The Polygenetic Hypothesis and the Mind of the Savage -- Hegel's Africa -- Mount Prognathous -- Habeas Corpus: Rutherford B. Hayes and the Case of Nancy Farrer -- Romancing the Shadow -- Colonel Higginson to the Rescue -- The Black Imp in White America -- The Haunted Mind -- The Whale: Male or Female? -- The Steeple -- Bachelor's Bower: The Fearful Female -- Asylum in the Woods -- A Refined Disgust -- The Pond in the Eye of the Mind -- Thoreau's Old Flame -- Uncle Tom's Wagon -- Mrs. Stowe's Fantasy of the White Black Man -- A More Perfect Union -- The Black Knight -- The White Captive -- Frederick Douglass and the Whiteness of Blackness -- The Heroic Slave: White Rhetoric, Black Revolution -- The Abolitionist from Ohio: Huck Finn Grows Up -- Uncle Tom and Aunt Jim -- Dementia: The Pit -- Out of the Black Depths; Or the Transformation -- As the Twig Is Bent -- Memory: The Ebony Cabinet -- The Hill of Difficulty and the Fall of Man -- The Marriage of Head and Heart.".
• catalog title "The ivory leg in the ebony cabinet : madness, race, and gender in Victorian America / Thomas Cooley.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".