Call for Papers
MLA 2016 - Austin, TX
Melville's Late Fiction, or Radical Inhabitation
This panel will ask how Melville's late fictions (Moby-Dick and after) recast natural histories of the Americas; and in the process, complicate our understanding of the political and challenge assumptions of the gothic, the ghostly, the human and non-human. Topics include: the nature of things and persons; the problem of faith and/or re-making of a spirituality that has little to do with piety or moralism and everything to do with sensation—along with the instinct or affections that stimulate it--and the unexpected prose that results when the care of craft joins with the demands of ethical attention. Please send abstract and brief cv to Colin Dayan: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.