Forrest G. Robinson

Bio: Forrest G. Robinson is an academic researcher from University of California, Santa Cruz. The author has contributed to research in topics: Bad faith & Deception. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 51 publications receiving 343 citations.

Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson: Race, Conflict and Culture

Abstract: This collection seeks to place Pudd’nhead Wilson —a neglected, textually fragmented work of Mark Twain’s—in the context of contemporary critical approaches to literary studies. The editors’ introduction argues the virtues of using Pudd’nhead Wilson as a teaching text, a case study in many of the issues presently occupying literary criticism: issues of history and the uses of history, of canon formation, of textual problematics, and finally of race, class, and gender. In a variety of ways the essays build arguments out of, not in spite of, the anomalies, inconsistencies, and dead ends in the text itself. Such wrinkles and gaps, the authors find, are the symptoms of an inconclusive, even evasive, but culturally illuminating struggle to confront and resolve difficult questions bearing on race and sex. Such fresh, intellectually enriching perspectives on the novel arise directly from the broad-based interdisciplinary foundations provided by the participating scholars. Drawing on a wide variety of critical methodologies, the essays place the novel in ways that illuminate the world in which it was produced and that further promise to stimulate further study. Contributors. Michael Cowan, James M. Cox, Susan Gillman, Myra Jehlen, Wilson Carey McWilliams, George E. Marcus, Carolyn Porter, Forrest Robinson, Michael Rogin, John Carlos Rowe, John Schaar, Eric Sundquist

The Cambridge companion to Mark Twain

Abstract: Preface Chronology of Mark Twain's life 1. Mark Twain as an American icon Louis J. Budd 2. The innocent at large: Mark Twain's travel writing Forrest G. Robinson 3. Mark Twain and women Shelley Fisher Fishkin 4. Mark Twain's civil war: humor's reconstructive writing Neil Schmitz 5. Banned in Concord: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and classic American literature Myra Jehlen 6. Black critics and Mark Twain D. L. Smith 7. Mr Clemens and Jim Crow: Twain race and blackface Eric Lott 8. Speech acts and social action: Mark Twain and the politics of literary performance Evan Carton 9. How the boss played the game: Twain's critique of imperialism in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court John Carlos Rowe 10. Mark Twain's travels in the racial occult: Following the Equator and the dream tales Susan Gillman 11. Mark Twain's theology: the Gods of a Brevet presterian Stanley Brodwin Further reading Index.

Love’s Story Told: A Life of Henry A. Murray

Abstract: Searching out the private man as well as the public figure, this biography follows Henry Murray through his discoveries and triumphs as a pioneer in the field of clinical psychology, as a co-founder of Harvard's Psychological Clinic, the co-inventor of the Thematic Apperception Test, and a biographer of Herman Melville. Murray's fascination with Melville's troubled genius, his wartime experiences in the OSS and his close friendships with Lewis Mumford and Conrad Aiken are employed in this reconstruction of a life. And always, at the heart of this story, Robinson finds Murray's highly erotic and mystical relationship with Christiana Morgan. "Love's Story Told" examines this figure in American intellectual life at mid-century.

In Bad Faith: The Dynamics of Deception in Mark Twain's America

Abstract: The trugh is always respectable - "Tom Sawyer" the grand "Evasion" - "Huckleberry Finn" and the later works.

A Conceptual History of Personality Psychology

Abstract: Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the personality psychology that became an identifiable discipline in the social sciences in 1930. During that decade a number of separate lines of inquiry came together, culminating in the highly integrated programs for the field generated by Allport in 1937, Murray in 1938, and Lewin in 1935. Personality psychology was a dissident field in the context of American experimental psychology. Personality was holistic taking the whole person, as the primary unit of study. American learning theory focused on the relations between external stimuli and publicly observable responses in rats and other animals. Personality concerned itself with the problem of human motivation, conceived in terms of unobservable dynamics and promptings from within. Experimental psychologists searched for universal laws applicable to all individuals. Personality focused on the way people were different from each other as well as the way they were alike. In addition, personality psychology invited collaborations with a wide variety of disciplines lying outside the mainstream of American experimental psychology. These included psychoanalysis and other depth psychologies, such as mental testing and abnormal psychology. Personality psychology is treated as a discipline that has its own distinguishing features. Three of these put emphasis on the whole person, motivation and dynamics, and individual differences.