Melville and the Question of Meaning

ISBN-13: 9780367593469 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 154 str.

David Faflik

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This rich volume of essays restores meaning itself as the focal point of one of our most thoughtful modern writers, Herman Melville. Melville and the Question of Meaning thinks about thinking in Melville.

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David Faflik is Associate Professor of English at the University of Rhode Island. He received his Ph.D. in English (major field: American Literature to 1900; minor field: American Studies) from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 2005. A specialist in nineteenth-century American literature and culture, he has placed his writing in a wide range of scholarly journals, including American Literature, J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, South Atlantic Quarterly, and Arizona Quarterly, among others. The author of Boarding Out: Inhabiting the American Urban Literary Imagination, 1840-1860 (Northwestern UP, 2012), he is also the editor of Englishman Thomas Butler Gunn’s classic 1857 account of New York habitation, The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses (Rutgers UP, 2009). Faflik is currently at work on two additional book projects: Missed Reading: Culture, Class, and the Work of Urban Form (manuscript complete), and Passing Transcendental: Harvard, Heresy, and the Modern American Origins of Unbelief (in progress)