Faculty
Kenneth Dauber
Professor
Office: 633 Clemens
Phone number: 645-0717
E-mail address: dauber@buffalo.edu
Interests:
Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Theory (especially in the "Ordinary Language" tradition)
Courses taught:
American Literary Theory, Nineteenth-Century American Novel, Nineteenth-Century American Literature, American Exceptionalism, Bible as Literature, The Top Ten (Great Books from Homer....)
Work in progress:
- An Archaeology of Sentiment: Sympathy, Skepticism, and Community in Three Novels of the American Mid-Nineteenth Century
Selected publications:
Books
- Ordinary Language Criticism: Literary Thinking after Cavell after Wittgenstein. Ed., with Walter Jost. Northwestern University Press, 2003.
- The Idea of Authorship in America: Democratic Poetics from Franklin to Melville. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990, xx + 260pp.
- Rediscovering Hawthorne. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977, xi + 235pp.
Articles
- "Beginning at the Beginning in Genesis." In Ordinary Language Criticism, ed. Kenneth Dauber and Walter Jost (Northwestern University Press, 2003).
- "Realistically Speaking." Authorship in the Late Nineteenth Century and Beyond." American Literary History, 11 (1999), 378-90.
- "Ordinary Language Criticism: A Manifesto." Arizona Quarterly, 53 (1997), 123-39.
- "On Not Being Able to Read Emerson, or 'Representative Man.' " boundary 2, 21 (1994), 220-42.
