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David Dowling

Antebellum American Literature and Culture

David Dowling has been with the English department since 2006. His field is nineteenth century U.S. literature, with an emphasis on the profession of authorship in market culture. His forthcoming book, Capital Letters: Authorship in the Antebellum Literary Market (University of Iowa Press, 2009) examines the reactions of six authors—Wilson, Thoreau, Fern, Whitman, Davis, and Melville—to the market revolution of the mid-nineteenth century. His published and forthcoming articles appear in Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, American Transcendental Quarterly: A Journal of 19th Century Literature and Culture, Journal of Popular Culture, College Literature, and Aethlon. His second book, “Capital Companions: Literary Partnerships in the Nineteenth-Century U.S.” is on the economics of authorial collaboration. His next book, “The Leviathan of Print Culture,” will be a participant-observer account of the 2009 Moby-Dick Marathon Reading combining techniques of literary criticism, creative nonfiction, and new journalism. His teaching includes courses in U.S. literature and culture from 1800, including African, postcolonial, transnational, and honors general education literature.