A Benito Cereno handbook / 
edited by Seymour L. Gross. 
 - viii, 200 pages ;  22 cm 
 - Wadsworth guides to literary study .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>Part 1: The text. Benito Cereno / Herman Melville -- Part 2: The source. Chapter XVIII of Narrative of voyages and travels / Amasa Delano -- Part 3: Criticism. Seeing Americanly : The narrative point of view. Amasa Delano's plain good sense / Guy Cardwell ; Captain Delano and the problem of authority / Nicholas Canaday, Jr. ; Amasa Delano, realist / James E. Miller, Jr. ; "The good captain" : Amasa Delano, American idealist / Barry Phillips -- The cast shadow : Benito Cereno and the Negro problem. Melville and the Negro problem : Benito Cereno / Charles I. Glicksberg ; The slavery issue in Benito Cereno / Joseph Schiffman ; Racism in Benito Cereno / Joseph Schiffman ; Benito Cereno and the American national sin / Sidney Kaplan ; Babo and the destruction of the stereotype / Warren D'Azevedo ; In defense of Babo / Allen Guttmann -- Source, symbol, and theme. Benito Cereno : from source to symbol / Rosalie Feltenstein ; The monk and the bachelor : Melville's Benito Cereno / Richard Harter Fogle ; Masque and symbol in Melville's Benito Cereno / Robin Magowan ; The source and the symbols of Melville's Benito Cereno / Max Putzel ; Benito Cereno : Melville's vision and re-vision of the source / Marjorie Dew -- Part 4: Questions and topics. Topics and questions for discussion and papers -- Part 5: Bibliography. A selected bibliography. 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>65022640  
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>014153177  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 --Criticism and interpretation
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Slavery in literature
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS2384.B42  / B46 1965