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我們每一個人一生都會讀很多書，但是我們能真正記住多少呢？我們都聽說過美國文學中的著名作家，例如Emerson，Thoreau，Poe，Hawthorne，Melville，Whitman，Dickinson，Twain，James，Hemingway，Fitzgerald，Faulkner，Eliot，O'Neil，Morrison。但是我們知道他們為什麼偉大嗎？我們真的理解這些書，達到它們已經成為我們內心的一道風景，成為美國人和美國的性格嗎？

美國的經典作品十分豐富，這些書經常是沖突十分激烈的場所——政治、種族、性別以及道德。與其他現代國家相比，美國是一個神秘的國度，擁有它自己的使命感和前途，並且通過流血戰爭來實現她的使命。這些文學作品，就是形成美國英語以及美國式自由的努力。

Arnold Weinstein was born in Tennessee in 1940 and received his undergraduate degree in romance languages from Princeton University in 1962. He studied at Université de Paris in 1960–61 and at Freie Universitat, Berlin, in 1962–63. He received his master's and doctorate in comparative literature from Harvard University in 1964 and 1968, respectively.

Dr. Weinstein has been teaching courses on European, English, and American literature at Brown University since 1968. In addition, he is the sponsor of Swedish Studies at Brown. He has been the chairperson of the Advisory Council on Comparative Literature at Princeton University and is actively involved in the American Comparative Literature Association.

Among the many academic honors, research grants, and fellowships he has received include research grants from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 1983 he was visiting professor of American Literature at Stockholm University, where he received the Fulbright Senior Lecturer Award. He is currently a member of the Academy of Literary Studies and the director of an NEH-funded program in great books. In 1995 he was named Brown University's best teacher in the humanities. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Award for University Teachers for 1998-99 for his work in literature and medicine.

Dr. Weinstein is the author of Vision and Response in Modern Fiction (1984), Fictions of the Self: 1550–1800 (1981), The Fiction of Relationship (1988), and Nobody's Home: Speech, Self, and Place in American Fiction from Hawthorne to DeLillo (1993). He is working in the fields of literature and medicine, with a view toward a book-length study of the relationship between the two, especially concerning the issues of diagnosis and interpretation.