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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Revision as resistance in twentieth-century American drama / by Malburne-Wade, Meredith M., 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Confession and crime, confession as crime: Williams' Tituba's children and Miller's The crucible -- Confrontation and challenge: Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charlie as response to the murder of Emmett Till -- Condemnation as redress: Herman Melville's Benito Cereno, Richard Wright's Man, God ain't like that, and Robert Lowell's Benito Cereno -- Celebration of family as a means of difference and hope: Hansberry's A raisin in the sun and Odets' Awake and sing! …”

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.…”

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.…”

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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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.…”

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.…”
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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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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. …”

Medieval America : feudalism and liberalism in nineteenth-century U.S. culture / by Rabiee, Robert Yusef, 1981-

Table of Contents: “…Southworth -- Resistance to the feudal-liberal alliance : Ridge's The life and adventures of Joaqui´n Murieta and Melville's Benito Cereno -- Feudalism, individualism, and authority in Emerson's later works -- Conclusion: The Kentucky castle.…”
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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.…”

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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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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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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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.…”

The fortress of American solitude : Robinson Crusoe and antebellum culture / by Thomson, Shawn, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Robinson Crusoe as a topos of masculinity in nineteenth-century America -- A remembrance of things Typee: Herman Melville and the making of the man who slept with cannibals -- Outside the fortress of solitude: castaway pathos in Frederick Douglass's My bondage and my freedom and Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the scriverner" and "Benito Cereno" -- Failed Crusoes: competing models of manhood in Herman Melville's Pierre and Elizabeth Stoddard's Two men -- Crusoe in the Yankee nation: labor, class, and domesticity in James Fenimore Cooper's The crater and George Payson's Golden dreams and leaden realities -- Female Crusoes, lady castaways, and Dickinson's castaway poetics: Victorian women in a masculine terrain -- Conclusion: the failing Robinson Crusoe: Twain and the nostalgia for antebellum boyhood (1864-1885).…”

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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