Haunted property : slavery and the gothic / by Ford, Sarah Gilbreath, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The bill of sale: gothic, property, slavery, and the South -- Chapter one: From damsels to specters in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the life of a slave girl and Hannah Crafts's The bondwoman's narrative -- Chapter two: Playing con games in Herman Melville's Benito Cereno, Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson, and Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose -- Chapter three: Specters on staircases in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!…”
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The art of modern fiction

Table of Contents: “…The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad -- Benito Cereno / Herman Melville -- Analyses of novels : Madame Bovary / Gustave Flaubert -- The American / Henry James -- The Mayor of Casterbridge / Thomas Hardy -- Victory / Joseph Conrad -- A farewell to arms / Ernest Hemingway.…”

The value of Herman Melville / by Sanborn, Geoffrey

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Criticism and the color line : desegregating American literary studies /

Table of Contents: “…Gabrielle Foreman -- The blind leading the blind: the racial gaze as plot dilemma in "Benito Cereno" and "The heroic slave" / Herman Beavers -- The ghost of race: Edgar Allan Poe and the southern gothic / Teresa Goddu -- Interrogating "whiteness," complicating "blackness": remapping American culture / Shelley Fisher Fishkin.…”

Masculinities and literary studies : intersections and new directions /

Table of Contents: “…The Negro goes to war -- Revisiting masculinities from Whiteness studies : Herman Melville's "Benito Cereno" -- Staging intersectionality : beyond gender and race in the American theater -- Men around the world : global and transnational masculinities -- Transnational legacies and masculinity politics in The brief life of Oscar Wao -- New Arab masculinities : a feminist approach to Arab American men in post-9/11 literature written by women -- "Men who cry in their sleep" : aging male hysteria in Marin Amis's London stories -- Negotiating childhood and boyhood boundaries : Richard Linklater's Boyhood and Toni Morrison's Black boys -- Fighting the monsters inside : masculinity, agency, and the aging gay man in Christopher Bram's Father of Frankenstein -- Theorizing the masculinity of affect -- Men of war : affect, embodiment, and western heroic masculinity in Dispatches and The hurt locker -- The "wild, wild world" : masculinity and the environment in the American literary imagination -- Green intersections : caring masculinities and the environmental crisis -- Masculinities and financial capitalism -- Capitalism, slavery, and mask-ulinities : new directions -- "To love what death doesn't touch" : questioning capitalist masculinity in Donna Tartt's The goldfinch -- Epilogue : masculinity studies : new directions.…”

Sea-brothers : the tradition of American sea fiction from Moby-Dick to the present / by Bender, Bert

Table of Contents: “…The voyage in American sea fiction after the Pilgrim, the Acushnet, and the Beagle -- Meditation and the life-waters -- The shipwrecked soul: "The Encantadas": abased sea-stories; Israel Potter; "Benito Cereno" -- The Jonah feeling: John Marr and other sailors; Billy Budd, sailor (Herman Melville) -- The experience of brotherhood in "The open boat" (Stephen Crane) -- Jack London in the tradition of American sea fiction -- From sail to steam: sailor-writers of the 1860s and 1870s: Morgan Robertson, Thornton Jenkins Hains, James Brendan Connolly, Arthur Mason, Felix Riesenberg, Bill Adams -- From sail to steam: sailor-writers of the 1880s and 1890s: William McFee, Lincoln Ross Colcord, Richard Matthews Hallet, Archie Binns -- Hemingway: coming to the stream -- Hemingway's sea men: Harry Morgan, Thomas Hudson and the sea, Santiago -- Peter Matthiessen and the tradition in modern time -- Far Tortuga.…”
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Billy Budd, Bartleby, and other stories / by Melville, Herman, 1819-1891

Handsomely Done : Aesthetics, Politics, and Media after Melville. by Radu Cucu, Sorin

Table of Contents: “…Nagel; From Lima to Attica: Benito Cereno, the Nixon Recordings, and the 1971 Prison Uprising / Paul Downes; Part 2. …”
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Maritime mobilities in anglophone literature and culture /

Table of Contents: “…Reading and Writing the Ship in Benito Cereno and The Heroic Slave -- 6. South Seas Speculation in Finance and Fiction -- 7. …”
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Teaching What You're Not : Identity Politics in Higher Education. by Mayberry, Katherine

Table of Contents: “…Teaching in the multiracial classroom : reconsidering "Benito Cereno" / Robert S. Levine -- 14. "Young man, tell our stories of how we made it over" : beyond the politics of identity / Gary L. …”
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Spain, the United States, and transatlantic literary culture throughout the nineteenth century /

Table of Contents: “…Hispanists and the malleability of the American empire's Spanish past / Gregg French -- Sketches of Spain : the traveling fictions of Frances Calderón de la Barca's The attaché in Madrid / Nick Spengler -- "Benito Cereno," Spaniards, and Creoles / John C. Havard -- Inspiration or coincidence? …”

A William V. Spanos reader : humanist criticism and the secular imperative / by Spanos, William V.

Table of Contents: “…Richards -- Culture and colonization : the imperial imperatives of the centered circle -- Heidegger, Foucault, and the "empire of the gaze" : thinking the territorialization of knowledge -- "Benito Cereno" and "Bartleby, the scrivener" : reflections on the American calling -- American exceptionalism and the secular turn -- The question of philosophy and poiesis in the post-historical age : thinking/imagining the shadow of metaphysics -- Edward Said's humanism and American exceptionalism : an interrogation after 9/11 -- Herman Melville's Pierre; or, the ambiguities and Jane Austen's Mansfield Park : the imperial violence of the novel of manners -- The calling and the question of the secular -- Arab Spring, 2011 : a symptomatic reading of the revolution -- In lieu of a conclusion: a discussion between William V. …”

Crisis and legitimacy in Atlantic American narratives of piracy : 1678-1865 / by Ganser, Alexandra

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A glossary of chickens : poems / by Whitehead, Gary J.

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Melville's philosophies /

Table of Contents: “…Fateful Gestures: On Movement and the Maneuvers of Style in "Benito Cereno" / James D. Lilley -- 9. Melville, Poetry, Prints / Samuel Otter -- 10. …”

Philadelphia stories : America's literature of race and freedom / by Otter, Samuel, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Webb's the garies and their friends "A rather curious protest" -- Still life in Georgia -- History and farce -- Parlor and riot -- Philadelphia vanitas -- The social experiment in Herman Melville's Benito Cereno.…”
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Dancing on the color line : African American tricksters in nineteenth-century American literature / by Martin, Gretchen, 1966-

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Dancing on the color line : African American tricksters in nineteenth-century American literature / by Martin, Gretchen, 1966-

Negative cosmopolitanism : cultures and politics of world citizenship after globalization /

Table of Contents: “…American good life, the Bandung spirit, and a human rights record / Crystal Parikh -- Sui generous : examining the object of organized philanthropy through the MacArthur Foundation / Geordie Miller -- Underwriting cosmopolitanism : insurance, slavery, and confidence games in Herman Melville's "Benito Cereno" and The confidence-man / Dennis Mischke -- Fractured mediations : Eur/Asian vernacular cosmopolitanisms / Sneja Gunew -- Disaster cosmopolitanism : imaginations of comparison in Kamila Shamsie's Burnt shadows / Liam O'Loughlin -- Cosmopolitanism from below : oil capitalism, informality, and citizenship in Nigeria / Paul Ugor -- Representing migrant labour in contemporary Britain : Hsaio- ung Pai's Chinese whispers and Marina Lewycka's Strawberry fields/Two caravans / Pamela McCallum -- Cosmopolitan Creoles and neoliberal mobility in Annalee Davis's On the map / Melissa Stephens -- Reproductive politics, the negative present, and cosmopolitan futurity / Heather Latimer -- Standing outside the law : prostitution-free zones and the power of property / Juliane Collard -- "Internal racisms" of the Yakuza-eiga / Mike Dillon -- Embedded cosmopolitanism : Tolstoyan and Goethean ideas of world Literature during the two world wars / Dina Gusejnova -- At home in the world of the wound : feral cosmopolitics in the Red Riding Quartet / Mark Simpson -- Homiletic realism / Timothy Brennan.…”
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A William V. Spanos reader : humanist criticism and the secular imperative / by Spanos, William V.

Table of Contents: “…Richards -- Culture and colonization : the imperial imperatives of the centered circle -- Heidegger, Foucault, and the "empire of the gaze" : thinking the territorialization of knowledge -- "Benito Cereno" and "Bartleby, the scrivener" : reflections on the American calling -- American exceptionalism and the secular turn -- The question of philosophy and poiesis in the post-historical age : thinking/imagining the shadow of metaphysics -- Edward Said's humanism and American exceptionalism : an interrogation after 9/11 -- Herman Melville's Pierre; or, the ambiguities and Jane Austen's Mansfield Park : the imperial violence of the novel of manners -- The calling and the question of the secular -- Arab Spring, 2011 : a symptomatic reading of the revolution -- In lieu of a conclusion: a discussion between William V. …”
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