Contributor
Burkholder, Robert E.
Imprint:New York : G.K. Hall ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, c1992.
Descriptionxi, 253 p. ; 25 cm.
Note:[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 of 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. - The monastic slaver: images and meaning in "Benito Cereno" / Gloria Horsley-Meacham. - "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.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
