Melville's philosophies /

Table of Contents: “…8 "Learning, unlearning, word by word": Feeling Faith in Melville's Clarel Rhian WilliamsPart Three Arts; 9 Fateful Gestures: On Movement and the Maneuvers of Style in "Benito Cereno" James D. Lilley; 10 Melville, Poetry, Prints Samuel Otter; 11 A Final Appearance with Elihu Vedder: Melville's Visions Elisa Tamarkin; 12 La téméraire littéraire: Reckless Adaptation in Pierre and Pola X Paul Grimstad; Part Four Communities; 13 Melville's Leviathan Paul Downes; 14 Bartleby's Screen Colin Dayan; 15 Melville's Misanthropology Michael Jonik.…”
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American Literatures Prior to 1865 by Peterson, Scott D.

Table of Contents: “…Literature of the New Nation -- Melville -- "Benito Cereno" Part II -- Unit XXIII. Literature of the New Nation -- Poe -- Unit XXIV. …”
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Plots, Designs, and Schemes : American Conspiracy Theories from the Puritans to the Present. by Butter, Michael

Table of Contents: “…A Partisan Leader and a Few Rebellious Slaves: Literary Engagements with Conspiracy Theories about Slavery -- The Meaning of the Knot: Conspiracy Theories in Herman Melville's "Benito Cereno" -- Chapter 5. "Masters of Deceit": Conspiracy Theory in the Great Red Scare of the 1950s -- Something Old and Something New: The Communist Conspiracy Theory -- "Damaged Souls": Communism and Other Deviancies -- Preachers in a Moral Struggle: J. …”
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With a Barbarous Din. by Cortiel, Jeanne

Table of Contents: “…Reading Ahistorically 1 With a Barbarous Din: Ethnic Triangulations ; 1.1 Reading "Benito Cereno ; 1.2 Ethnicity: The Challenge of Unknowable Strangeness ; 1.3 Race: The Challenge of Epistemological Certainty ; 1.4 Juxtapositions ; 2 The Power of Citation: Consent and Descent.…”
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To wake the nations : race in the making of American literature / by Sundquist, Eric J.

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Teach me how to work and keep me kind : the possibilities of literature and composition in an American high school / by Riener, Joseph F., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…The American Heart in Its Darkness: Racism in American Literature and Life -- "The Big American Crime," an essay in The New York Review of Books / Edmund Morgan -- Poems / Phillis Wheatley -- Benito Cereno / Herman Melville -- 14. Spending Awhile with Huck and Jim -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain -- 15. …”
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