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This definitive, annotated edition offers an authoritative text of Herman Melville's classic short novel, accompanied by a generous selection of documents designed to give students a sense of the rich historical and cultural context of nineteenth-century America. The documents are thematically organised into categories including Sources/Pretexts; Melville on Race/Violence; Catholicism, Empire and the Union; Scientific Racism; and The Literature of Slave Rebellions in the 1850s. Materials include selections from Amasa Delano, William Cullen Bryant, Frederick Douglass, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Supreme Court arguments, a previously unpublished blackface skit, and Putnam's Magazine.
Contents
About the Series.- About this Volume.- List of Illustrations.- PART ONEBENITO CERENO: THE COMPLETE TEXT.- Introduction: Cultural and Historical Background.- Chronology of Melville's Life and Times.- A Note on the Text.- Benito Cereno (1855 Putnam's Magazine Version).- Variants from the Piazza Tales Printing of the Text.- PART TWO: BENITO CERENO: CULTURAL CONTEXTS.- Sources/Pretexts.- Melville on Race/Violence.- Catholicism, Empire and The Union.- Race and Rebellion.- Selected Bibliography.