The Museum as 'Dream Space': Psychology and Aesthetic Response in George Eliot’s Middlemarch

Museums

“…Dorothea Brooke, as many critics have noted, is overwhelmed by her experience of Rome and its museums, ill-equipped by her "toy-box" education to interpret its "unintelligible" forms (79; 181). Dorothea becomes part of the museum collection, an object for interpretation, but she is able, nonetheless, to draw on her dreamlike experience in the Vatican galleries in her later attempts to interpret her failed marriage (Mills 2011).…”

Contextualizing neuro-collaborations: reflections on a transdisciplinary fMRI lie detection experiment

“…Through his famous image of “the veil,” Du Bois captures precisely the simultaneous feeling of being both inside and outside an identity, a nation, a culture, an historical experience - and the intellectual and affective labors of tacking back and forth between such senses of doubling. Recently, scholars have drawn on Du Bois’s account to describe myriad subcultures in which identity and subjectivity are also suspended in complex and doubled relationships with often-oppressive-but-inescapable larger cultures: female boxers at the turn of the twentieth century (Gammel, 2012), the place of “character” and moral responsibility in criminal law (Lacey, 2010), and the relationship between the ideal and the real in nineteenth century literature (Mills, 2011), just to name a few. This expansive use of double consciousness inspires our application to neuro-collaborations.…”