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Chasing the White Whale:
The Moby-Dick Marathon; or, What Melville Means Today

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Free Excerpt from David Dowling's Capital Letters: Authorship in the Antebellum Literary Market

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The Author
David Dowling, lecturer in English at the University of Iowa, is the author of Capital Letters: Authorship in the Antebellum Literary Market (University of Iowa Press, 2009), Chasing the White Whale: The Moby-Dick Marathon; or, What Melville Means Today, (University of Iowa Press, forthcoming November 2010), The Business of Literary Circles in Nineteenth-Century America (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming February 2011), and Capital Companions: Literary Partnerships in Nineteenth Century America (Louisiana State University Press, forthcoming fall 2011). His articles on the profession of authorship and the politics of publishing appear in American Periodicals, Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, American Transcendental Quarterly, College Literature, The Journal of Popular Culture, The Concord Saunterer, A/B: Auto/Biography Studies, and Aethlon. You are welcome to contact the author at david-dowling@uiowa.edu.