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Journal Article
American Literature (2000) 72 (3): 495–520.
Published: 01 September 2000
...Maurice S. Lee Duke University Press 2000 Maurice S. Melville’s Subversive Political Philosophy:
Lee ‘‘Benito Cereno’’ and the Fate of Speech
6141 AL 72:3 / sheet 39 of 237...
Journal Article
American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 35–64.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Jeannine Marie DeLombard DeLombard's essay departs from previous legally oriented readings of Benito Cereno by foregrounding not the title character's mysterious deposition but the novella's hitherto neglected series of contracts in order to interpret Herman Melville's only sustained literary...
Journal Article
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 190–192.
Published: 01 March 2010
... Cereno” and “Moby-Dick.” By Sterling Stuckey. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2009. ix, 154 pp. $27.95. Book Reviews
Folded Selves: Colonial New England Writing in the World System. By Michelle
Burnham. Hanover, N.H.: Dartmouth College Press. 2007. viii, 222 pp. Paper,
$30.00...
Journal Article
American Literature (2024) 96 (3): 355–380.
Published: 01 September 2024
[email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 slavery religion nineteenth-century American literature seculurism Benito Cereno (1855) by Herman Melville is not typically viewed as a religious text. It lacks the religio-anthropological fascinations of his earliest sea...
Journal Article
American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 217–246.
Published: 01 June 2013
...Jeffrey Hole As works which had similarly evoked slave-ship revolt as topics for their prose fictions in the mid-1850s, Douglass’s The Heroic Slave and Melville’s Benito Cereno , Hole’s essay argues, offer noticeably distinct aesthetic, rhetorical, and stylistic presentations of slave rebellion...
Journal Article
American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 423–435.
Published: 01 September 2004
... of cultural
analysis.
Take, for instance, Herman Melville’s novella, Benito Cereno.
Preface 425
Readers easily recognize this narrative, with its emphasis on histori-
cal source material, slavery, and racial misrecognition, as a cultural
text...
Journal Article
American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 235–236.
Published: 01 March 2011
... for her
essay “Salvaging Legal Personhood: Melville’s Benito Cereno” (March 2009,
35–64). The prize is awarded annually by the Melville Society for excellence
in scholarship and writing in an article or book chapter on Melville published
in the preceding year. ...
Journal Article
American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 245–246.
Published: 01 March 2003
... awarded its third annual Hennig Cohen Prize
to Maurice S. Lee for his essay ‘‘Melville’s Subversive Political Philosophy:
‘Benito Cereno’ and the Fate of Speech’’ (American Literature [September
2000], 495–519...
Journal Article
American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 851–879.
Published: 01 December 2017
... Amasa Delano ( 1817 )—the New England sea captain Melville ( 1856a ) would fictionalize in “Benito Cereno”—called the “machinery of civilization.” In the abstract, this machinery consisted of “the means and motives for extensive improvement” that were brought to bear on the human populations of Pacific...
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Journal Article
American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 217–219.
Published: 01 March 2004
...’’ ( June,
219–50).
Call for Papers: Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville:
A Sesquicentennial Celebration
To mark the 150th anniversary of the publication of both Douglass’s My Bond-
age and My Freedom and Melville’s Benito Cereno, the Melville Society, the
Frederick Douglass Institutes of West...
Journal Article
American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 259–289.
Published: 01 June 2005
... heroics and the puffery of his product slogans but
also in the fictitious divisions of race that define the system of chattel
slavery.
Herman Melville’s ‘‘Benito Cereno’’ (1855) is particularly instruc-
tive in its treatment of the oppressive fictions underlying these con-
ceptions of time and race...
Journal Article
American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 398–400.
Published: 01 June 2016
...-righteousness of reformists in the antebellum period through Pierre’s ill-fated obsessions with redeeming his “dark” half sister Isabel, and chapter 3 leaves us entangled in the horrors of history and violence aboard the San Dominick in “Benito Cereno,” the arrival at any redeeming virtue or “freedom...
Journal Article
American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 227–257.
Published: 01 June 2005
...-Dick aretothiseditionandwill
be cited parenthetically in the text as MD.
11 In ‘‘Benito Cereno published four years after Moby-Dick,theAmeri-
can captain Amasa Delano is so pleased by the appearance of affection
between the Spanish captain Benito Cereno and his African manservant...
Journal Article
American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 174–176.
Published: 01 March 2018
... Melville. Even these latter authors, moreover, occasionally receive opprobrium. As Ryan observes, Melville’s star has dimmed a bit since Elizabeth Renker’s suggestion in 1994 that the author of Moby-Dick (1851) and “Benito Cereno” had likely beaten his wife, Elizabeth Shaw Melville. Ryan’s goal...
Journal Article
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 181–183.
Published: 01 March 2010
... Process in “Benito Cereno” and
“Moby-Dick.” By Sterling Stuckey. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2009. ix, 154 pp.
$27.95.
These books consider important areas of Herman Melville’s creative process
in ways not previously explored by others—Mary Bercaw Edwards in a book
that opens up a brand new...
Journal Article
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 183–186.
Published: 01 March 2010
... Early Works. By Mary K. Bercaw
Edwards. Kent, Ohio: Kent State Univ. Press. 2009. xxii, 252 pp. $49.00.
African Culture and Melville’s Art: The Creative Process in “Benito Cereno” and
“Moby-Dick.” By Sterling Stuckey. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2009. ix, 154 pp.
$27.95.
These books consider...
Journal Article
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 186–188.
Published: 01 March 2010
... Process in “Benito Cereno” and
“Moby-Dick.” By Sterling Stuckey. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2009. ix, 154 pp.
$27.95.
These books consider important areas of Herman Melville’s creative process
in ways not previously explored by others—Mary Bercaw Edwards in a book
that opens up a brand new...
Journal Article
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 188–190.
Published: 01 March 2010
... Process in “Benito Cereno” and
“Moby-Dick.” By Sterling Stuckey. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2009. ix, 154 pp.
$27.95.
These books consider important areas of Herman Melville’s creative process
in ways not previously explored by others—Mary Bercaw Edwards in a book
that opens up a brand new...
Journal Article
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 192–195.
Published: 01 March 2010
... Process in “Benito Cereno” and
“Moby-Dick.” By Sterling Stuckey. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2009. ix, 154 pp.
$27.95.
These books consider important areas of Herman Melville’s creative process
in ways not previously explored by others—Mary Bercaw Edwards in a book
that opens up a brand new...
Journal Article
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 196–198.
Published: 01 March 2010
... Process in “Benito Cereno” and
“Moby-Dick.” By Sterling Stuckey. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2009. ix, 154 pp.
$27.95.
These books consider important areas of Herman Melville’s creative process
in ways not previously explored by others—Mary Bercaw Edwards in a book
that opens up a brand new...
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