Critical essays on Herman Melville's "Benito Cereno" /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Burkholder, Robert E.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Toronto : New York : G.K. Hall ; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International, [1992]
Series:	Critical essays on American literature.
Subjects:	Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891. > Benito Cereno.

Table of Contents:

Notice of The piazza tales / The Christian Freeman and Family Visiter
Notice of The piazza tales / The Knickerbocker
Melville's Timonism in "Benito Cereno" / Lewis Mumford
"Benito Cereno" : a masterpiece of mystery, suspense and terror" Sterling Brown
The failure of "Benito Cereno" / Newton Arvin
Critical problems in Melville's "Benito Cereno" / Joseph Schiffman
Herman Melville and the American national sin : the meaning of "Benito Cereno" / Sidney Kaplan
"Benito Cereno" and the gothic horror slavery / Leslie Fiedler
"Apparent symbol of despotic command" : Melville's Benito Cereno / H. Bruce Franklin
"The mechanism of mystification" in "Benito Cereno" / Warner Berthoff
"Benito Cereno" : Melville's fable of Black complicity / Kermit Vanderbilt
Benito Cereno : slavery and violence in the Americas / Joyce Sparer Adler.
"Benito Cereno" and manifest destiny / Allan Moore Emery
The legal fictions of Herman Melville and Lemuel Shaw / Brook Thomas
Reenvisioning America : Melville's "Benito Cereno" / Sandra A. Zagarell
Benito Cereno and new world slavery / Eric J. Sundquist
Benito Cereno : Melville's de(con)struction of the southern reader / Charles Swann
"Follow your leader" : the theme of cannibalism in Melville's Benito Cereno / Sterling Stuckey
The riddle of the sphinx : Melville's "Benito Cereno" and the Amistad case / Carolyn L. Karcher
Past, present, and future seemed one / H. Bruce Franklin.