Benito Cereno / by Melville, Herman, 1819-1891

Subjects: “…Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Benito Cereno.…”
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Invisible man's literary heritage : Benito Cereno and Moby Dick / by Gray, Valerie Bonita

African culture and Melville's art : the creative process in Benito Cereno and Moby-Dick / by Stuckey, Sterling

Table of Contents: “…The tambourine in glory -- Benito Cereno and Moby-Dick -- The hatchet-polishers, Benito Cereno, and Amasa Delano -- Cheer and gloom : Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville on slave music and dance -- Appendix : Chapter XVI from Captain Amasa Delano's A narrative of voyages and travels.…”

Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Benito Cereno, & Bartleby the scrivener /

Subjects: “…Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Benito Cereno.…”
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Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Benito Cereno, Bartleby the scrivener, and other tales /

Conspiracy and romance : studies in Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville / by Levine, Robert S. 1953-

Subjects: “…Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Benito Cereno.…”
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Melville's evermoving dawn : centennial essays /

Table of Contents: “…Slavery and empire: Melville's "Benito Cereno" /…”

Herman Melville and the American calling : fiction after Moby-Dick, 1851-1857 / by Spanos, William V.

Table of Contents: “…Melville's specter : an introduction -- Pierre's extraordinary emergency : Melville and the "voice of silence" -- Herman Melville's Israel Potter : reflections on a damaged life -- "Benito Cereno" and "Bartleby, the scrivener" : reflections on the American calling. …”
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Melville and the idea of blackness : race and imperialism in nineteenth-century America / by Freeburg, Christopher

Table of Contents: “…Knowing the "bottomless deep": Moby-Dick -- Living "within the maelstrom": Pierre -- Thwarting the "regulated mind": "Benito Cereno" -- Embodying the "assaults of time": "the encantadas."…”
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Melville and the idea of blackness : race and imperialism in nineteenth-century America / by Freeburg, Christopher

Table of Contents: “…Knowing the "bottomless deep": Moby-Dick -- Living "within the maelstrom": Pierre -- Thwarting the "regulated mind": "Benito Cereno" -- Embodying the "assaults of time": "the encantadas."…”
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The sign of the cannibal : Melville and the making of a postcolonial reader / by Sanborn, Geoffrey

Table of Contents: “…In the wake of the Resolution : the post-enlightenment discourse on cannibalism -- The terror of their name : reflections on Typee -- The aftersight : Moby Dick and the spectacle of savagery -- Walking shadows : "Benito Cereno" and the colonial stage.…”

Melville's other lives : bodies on trial in The piazza tales / by Sten, Christopher, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…"The piazza" and Melville's Sickroom -- "Bartleby, the scrivener" : the body (and soul) in pain -- "Casting a shadow" : representing race and trauma in "Benito cereno" -- Playing smart, playing dumb : performance in "The lightning-rod man" -- "The encantadas, or enchanted isles" : bodies as fragments -- Docile monsters and enslavement in "The bell-tower".…”
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The arbiters of reality : Hawthorne, Melville, and the rise of mass information culture / by West, Peter, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…: murder and mass journalism in Hawthorne's Salem -- The journalistic origins of romance -- Hawthorne's city of refuge -- In this world of lies : Zachary Taylor and the American telegraph in Melville's New York -- The island telegraph : information culture and the Melvillean self in Typee -- Benito Cereno and the blunt-thinking American.…”
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The arbiters of reality : Hawthorne, Melville, and the rise of mass information culture / by West, Peter, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…: murder and mass journalism in Hawthorne's Salem -- The journalistic origins of romance -- Hawthorne's city of refuge -- In this world of lies : Zachary Taylor and the American telegraph in Melville's New York -- The island telegraph : information culture and the Melvillean self in Typee -- Benito Cereno and the blunt-thinking American.…”

Law in art : Melville's major fiction and nineteenth-century American law / by Weiner, Susan, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Typee: An early look at the relationship between literature and law -- White-Jacket: or the world of ordered conflict -- Moby-Dick: Imaginative discourse as a challenge to legal discourse -- Pierre: The novel and legal formalism -- "Bartleby": Representation, reproduction and the law -- "Benito Cereno" and the failure of law -- Law, Literature, and the space between: The case of Billy Budd.…”

Melville's short fiction, 1853-1856 / by Dillingham, William B.

Table of Contents: “…--A dark similitude: Benito Cereno.--The higher mathematics: I and my chimney.…”

A Political Companion to Herman Melville /

Table of Contents: “…Mariotti -- Language and labor, silence and stasis: Bartleby among the philosophers / Kevin Attell -- Melville's "permanent riotacracy" / Michael Jonik -- What Babo saw: Benito Cereno and "the world we live in" / Lawrie Balfour -- "Follow your leader": Benito Cereno and the case of two ships / Tracy B. …”
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After the whale : Melville in the wake of Moby-Dick / by Davis, Clark

Table of Contents: “…Part I: Moby-Dick and after -- Moby-Dick and the divided body -- Language and the ascetic body in Pierre and "Bartleby" -- Israel potter and the search for the hearth -- Part II: The limits of form -- Toward deception: the short fiction and the failing body -- Inverted worlds: "Benito Cereno" and The confidence-man -- Part III: Reshaping the lost debate -- The fissure in the hearth: Battle pieces -- Clarel and the search for divine body -- A question of distance: the late poetry -- Part IV: An open ending -- Billy Budd and the touch of a god.…”
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Melville among the philosophers /

Table of Contents: “…James' mariners, renegades, castaways and Paget Henry's Caliban's reason / Marilyn Nissim-Sabat -- Decolonial options in Moby-Dick / Kris Sealey -- "Benito Cereno", or, the American chronotope of slavery / Eduardo Mendieta -- The European authorization of American literature and philosophy: after Cavell, reading Bartleby with Deleuze, then Rancière / David Larocca -- Afterword. …”

The Cambridge introduction to Herman Melville / by Hayes, Kevin J.

Table of Contents: “…Writings -- The faces of Typee -- Omoo : the rover as flaneur -- Becoming a great writer : Mardi, Redburn, White-Jacket -- Confronting Moby-Dick -- Pierre : the making of a tragic hero -- Private letters -- Rewriting history : Israel Potter and "Benito Cereno" -- Modern man : "The lightning-rod man," The confidence-man, "Bartleby, the scrivener" -- Battle-pieces : the voices of war -- Clarel, and American epic -- The return to prose : Burgundy Club sketches, John Marr -- Billy Budd : visions and revisions -- 4. …”
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