“…Benito Cereno…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Benito Cereno ; John Marr ; Daniel Orme…”

“…Benito Cereno…”

“…Benito Cereno…”

“…Contenidor de (expressió): Benito Cereno. Castellà…”

“…Benito Cereno…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Benito Cereno ; Bartleby the scrivener ; Billy Budd, foretopman…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…: 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…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Reading and Writing the Ship in “Benito Cereno” and “The Heroic Slave” -- 6. South Seas Speculation in Finance and Fiction -- 7. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…James' mariners, renegades, castaways and Paget Henry's Caliban's reason / Marilyn Nissim-Sabat -- Decolonial options in Moby-Dick / Kris Sealey -- "Benito Cereno", or, the American chronotope of slavery / Eduardo Mendieta -- The European authorization of American literature and philosophy: after Cavell, reading Bartleby with Deleuze, then Rancière / David Larocca -- Afterword. …”

“…Examining both canonical and understudied texts—from Puritan sermons, James Fenimore Cooper’s The Red Rover, and Herman Melville’s “Benito Cereno” to the popular cross-dressing female pirate novelette Fanny Campbell, and satirical decorated Union envelopes, this book argues that piracy acted as a trope to negotiate ideas of legitimacy in the contexts of U.S. colonialism, nationalism, and expansionism. …”

“…Melville's struggle to maintain the distinction between art and truth was reflected in the changing forms of his novels.Dryden traces Melville's evolving metaphysical views and studies their impact on the craftsmanship of this acutely self-conscious artist from his early novels—Typee, Redburn, and White Jacket—through Moby-Dick, Pierre, Israel Potter, and The Confidence-Man to the posthumously published Billy Budd and the closely related Benito Cereno, and he concludes that "all of Melville's narrators are in some way portraits of the artist at work." …”