description: 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 19th century America. The documents are thematically organized 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Delano, William Cullen Bryant, Frederick Douglass, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Supreme Court arguments, a previously unpublished blackface skit, and Putnan's Magazine.
language: English
title: Benito Cereno: A Cultural Edition
titlecomplete: Benito Cereno: A Cultural Edition
characters: Amasa Delano, Benito Cereno
genres: Fiction, 19th Century, Classics, Novels, Read For School, American, Historical Fiction, Literature, Short Stories, School
ratings_count: 8528
publisher: Bedford/st Martins