Arnold Weinstein (scholar)

Weinstein was born in Memphis, Tennessee. After earning a B.A. in Romance Languages at Princeton University in 1962, he enrolled at Harvard University, where he received both an M.A. (1964) and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (1968). He studied in Europe during his undergraduate and graduate years, spending time at Universite de Paris, Freie Universitat Berlin, and Universite de Lyon. == Career ==

Weinstein joined the faculty at Brown University in 1968, shortly before the adoption of the New Curriculum. He worked to bring students to the Department of Comparative Literature through promoting interdisciplinary collaboration and the study of non-Western literature. After 54 years on the faculty, Weinstein retired in 2023. == Personal life ==

Weinstein is married to Ann Cathrine Weinstein (née Berntson), former coordinator of Brown University's Swedish program. He has twin brother, Philip Weinstein, a former professor of English at Swarthmore College. == Books ==

• Vision and Response in Modern Fiction. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1974. • Fictions of the Self: 1550-1800. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1981. • The Fiction of Relationship. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988. • ''Nobody's Home: Speech, Self and Place in American Fiction from Hawthorne to DeLillo''. 1993. • A Scream Goes Through the House: What Literature Teaches Us About Life. New York, Random House, 2003. • Recovering Your Story: Proust, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, Morrison. New York: Random House, 2006. • Northern Arts: The Breakthrough of Scandinavian Literature and Art, from Ibsen to Bergman. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. • ''Morning, Noon, and Night: Finding the Meaning of Life's Stages Through Books''. New York: Random House, 2011. == References ==