Criticism and the color line : desegrating American literary studies /

Table of Contents: “…The blind leading the blind: the racial gaze as plot dilemma in "Benito Cereno" and "The heroic slave" /…”
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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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Exceptional violence and the crisis of classic American literature / by Fichtelberg, Joseph

Table of Contents: “…1 Introduction -- 2 States of Exception -- 3 Empty Places -- 4 Poe's Chess Game -- 5 The Sublime Object of Freedom -- 6 Claiming Benito Cereno -- 7 Emily Dickinson's Picturesque War.…”
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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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Slavery, surveillance, and genre in Antebellum United States literature / by Ross, Kelly, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…White Oversight in The Confessions of Nat Turner, Benito Cereno, and The Heroic Slave. The Destruction of White Oversight in The Confessions of Nat Turner ; Black Surveillance in Benito Cereno ; White Undersight in The Heroic Slave -- 4. …”

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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Reading the text that isn't there : paranoia in the nineteenth-century American novel / by Davis, Mike Lee, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the Gothic logic of paranoia -- Wieland's transformations : the problem of closure in the "opening" American novel -- "Hidden significance" : the Marble faun as post script to Seven gables -- Rhetorical razors : "lurking significance" in the "vexatious coincidence" of Benito Cereno -- Literary cloaks, practical jokes, and the esophagus hoax : concealment, conspiracy, and the contrivance of history in Twain.…”
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Hispanicism and early US literature : Spain, Mexico, Cuba, and the origins of US national identity / by Havard, John C.

Table of Contents: “…Joel Barlow's The vision of Columbus and the Columbiad: US national identity and Spain -- James Fenimore Cooper's Mercedes of Castile and Jack Tier: realism and hispanicism -- Herman Melville's "Benito Cereno" as critique of hispanicist exceptionalism: cosmopolitanism and ironizing identity -- Mary Peabody Mann's Juanita: Cuba and US national identity -- Jose Antonio Saco's antiannexationist essays: Cuba, hispanicism, and national identity -- Epilogue: The hispanicist forebears of 1898.…”

Hispanicism and early US literature : Spain, Mexico, Cuba, and the origins of US national identity / by Havard, John C.

Table of Contents: “…Joel Barlow's The vision of Columbus and the Columbiad: US national identity and Spain -- James Fenimore Cooper's Mercedes of Castile and Jack Tier: realism and hispanicism -- Herman Melville's "Benito Cereno" as critique of hispanicist exceptionalism: cosmopolitanism and ironizing identity -- Mary Peabody Mann's Juanita: Cuba and US national identity -- Jose Antonio Saco's antiannexationist essays: Cuba, hispanicism, and national identity -- Epilogue: The hispanicist forebears of 1898.…”
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Imitation nation : red, white, and blackface in early and antebellum US literature / by Richards, Jason, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: fail in originality, succeed in imitation -- The new republic's two frontiers: redface desire, European mimicry, and Edgar Huntly -- Localizing the early republic: Washington Irving and blackface culture -- Cooper's Anglo-Saxon masquerade: redface, whiteface, and the pioneers -- Blackface minstrelsy and the making of African American selfhood in Uncle Tom's cabin -- Melville's (inter)national burlesque: whiteface, blackface, and "Benito Cereno" -- Blackface violence and the early African American novel -- Epilogue: absorbing mimesis.…”

Disaffected : the cultural politics of unfeeling in nineteenth-century America / by Yao, Xine, 1985-

Table of Contents: “…The Babo problem : white sentimentalism and unsympathetic Blackness in Herman Melville's Benito Cereno -- Feeling otherwise : Martin R. Delany, Black-Indigenous counterintimacies, and the possibility of a new world -- The queer frigidity of professionalism : white women doctors, the struggle for rights, and the marriage plot -- Objective passionless : Black women doctors and dispassionate strategies of uplifting love -- Oriental inscrutability : Sui Sin Far, Chinese faces, and the modern apparatuses of U.S. immigration.…”

Citation and precedent : conjunctions and disjunctions of German law and literature / by Beebee, Thomas O.

Table of Contents: “…-- In search of the invisible precedent : Grimm writes to Savigny -- Kant, codification, and Goethe's elective affinities -- A recursive process : Kafka's law -- and ours -- Walter Benjamin reads the Weimar Constitution -- From Schiller to Schund : Zensur and the canonization of literature -- German literature fights for its rights : a thick description of an incident of Weimar literary culture -- Carl Schmitt and/as Benito Cereno -- Citation as second-order observation : Peter Weiss's The investigation.…”
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Gothic passages : racial ambiguity and the American gothic / by Edwards, Justin D., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Hybrid bodies and gothic narratives in Poe's Pym -- Gothic travels in Melville's Benito Cereno -- Passing and abjection in William and Ellen Craft's Running a thousand miles for freedom -- The epistemology of the body; or, gothic secrets in Frances E.W. …”
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Imitation nation : red, white, and blackface in early and Antebellum US literature / by Richards, Jason, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: fail in originality, succeed in imitation -- The new republic's two frontiers: redface desire, European mimicry, and Edgar Huntly -- Localizing the early republic: Washington Irving and blackface culture -- Cooper's Anglo-Saxon masquerade: redface, whiteface, and the pioneers -- Blackface minstrelsy and the making of African American selfhood in Uncle Tom's cabin -- Melville's (inter)national burlesque: whiteface, blackface, and "Benito Cereno" -- Blackface violence and the early African American novel -- Epilogue: absorbing mimesis.…”
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The word in black and white : reading "race" in American literature, 1638-1867 / by Nelson, Dana D.

Table of Contents: “…Uncommon need : "race" in early American literature -- Economies of morality and power : reading "race" in two colonial texts -- Romancing the border : Bird, Cooper, Simms, and the frontier novel -- W/Righting history : sympathy as strategy in Hope Leslie and A Romance of the republic -- Ethnocentrism decentered : colonial motives in The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym -- "For the gaze of the whites" : the crisis of the subject in "Benito Cereno" -- "Read the characters, question the motives" : Harriett Jacobs's Incidents in the life of a slave girl.…”
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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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Cross-examinations of law and literature : Cooper, Hawthorne, Stowe, and Melville / by Thomas, Brook

Table of Contents: “…Individuals, judges, property -- The pioneers; or the sources of American legal history : a critical tale -- The house of the seven gables : Hawthorne's legal story -- The house of the seven gables : Hawthorne's romance of art -- Wage and chattel slavery -- "Benito Cereno" : Melville's narrative of repression -- A sentimental journey : escape from bondage in Uncle Tom's cabin -- Exploitation at home and at sea -- "Bartleby, the scrivener" : fellow servants and free agents on Wall Street -- Contracts and confidence men -- Billy Budd and re-righting legal history -- Measured forms -- Ragged edges.…”

Disaffected : the cultural politics of unfeeling in nineteenth-century America / by Yao, Xine, 1985-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: disaffected from the culture of sentiment -- The Babo problem : white sentimentalism and unsympathetic Blackness in Herman Melville's Benito Cereno -- Feeling otherwise : Martin R. Delany, Black-Indigenous counterintimacies, and the possibility of a new world -- The queer frigidity of professionalism : white women doctors, the struggle for rights, and the marriage plot -- Objective passionless : Black women doctors and dispassionate strategies of uplifting love -- Oriental inscrutability : Sui Sin Far, Chinese faces, and the modern apparatuses of U.S. immigration -- Coda: notes toward a disaffected manifesto beyond survival.…”
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Edgar Allan Poe and his nineteenth-century American counterparts / by Gruesser, John Cullen, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…., the scrivener : biography and autobiography in Herman Melville's "Story of wall-street" -- Character rivalry, authorial sleight-of-hand, and generic fluidity in the Dupin trilogy -- Varieties of detection in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The scarlet letter, Walt Whitman's Life and adventures of Jack Engle, Herman Melville's Benito Cereno, and Mark Twain's "The stolen white elephant" -- Madness, mystification, and "average racism" in "The gold-bug," E.D.E.N. …”