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Benito Cereno de Herman Melville

Benito Cereno

Autor Herman Melville
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Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, writer of short stories, and poet from the American Renaissance period. The bulk of his writings was published between 1846 and 1857. Best known for his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851), he is also legendary for having been forgotten during the last thirty years of his life. Melville's writing is characteristic for its allusivity. "In Melville's manipulation of his reading," scholar Stanley T. Williams wrote, "was a transforming power comparable to Shakespeare's." Born in New York City, he was the third child of a merchant in French dry-goods, with Revolutionary War heroes for grandfathers. Not long after the death of his father in 1832, his schooling stopped abruptly. After having been a schoolteacher for a short time, he signed up for a merchant voyage to Liverpool in 1839. A year and a half into his first whaling voyage, in 1842 he jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands, where he lived among the natives for a month. His first book, Typee (1846), became a huge best-seller, which called for a sequel, Omoo (1847). The same year Melville married Elizabeth Knapp Shaw; their four children were all born between 1849 and 1855. In August 1850, having moved to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, he established a profound friendship with Nathaniel Hawthorne, though the relationship lost intensity after the latter moved away. Moby-Dick (1851) did not become a success, and Pierre (1852) put an end to his career as a popular author. From 1853 to 1856 he wrote short fiction for magazines, collected as The Piazza Tales (1856). In 1857, while Melville was on a voyage to England and the Near East, The Confidence-Man appeared, the last prose work published during his lifetime. From then on Melville turned to poetry. Having secured a position of Customs Inspector in New York, his poetic reflection on the Civil War appeared as Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866). In 1867 his oldest child Malcolm died at home from a self-inflicted gunshot. For the epic Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876) he drew upon his experience in Egypt and Palestine from twenty years earlier. In 1886 he retired as Customs Inspector and privately published some volumes of poetry in small editions. During the last years of his life, interest in him was reviving and he was approached to have his biography written, but his death in 1891 from cardiovascular disease subdued the revival before it could gain momentum. Inspired perhaps by the growing interest in him, in his final years he had been working on a prose story one more time and left the manuscript of Billy Budd, Sailor, which was published in 1924.
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ISBN-13: 9781505687132
ISBN-10: 1505687136
Pagini: 80
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 4 mm
Greutate: 0.12 kg
Editura: CREATESPACE

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“Benito Cereno,” a story of atmospheric Gothic horror and striking political resonance, represents Herman Melville’s most profound and unsettling engagement with the horrors of New World slavery. Narrating the story of a slave revolt using materials drawn from Amasa Delano’s non-fictional account of the Tryal Rebellion from earlier in the nineteenth century, Melville’s story probes the moral complexities of the antebellum United States and its position within the Americas. Melville explores the psychology of slavery and racism and the role of violence in both the resistance to, and the perpetuation of, slavery in the Americas.
The appendices to this volume illustrate how Melville’s satirical treatment of racism and his ambivalent response to violent resistance to slavery connect with antislavery literature (poetry, fiction, and non-fiction alike) in the middle of the nineteenth century, and they also consider how “Benito Cereno” functions as a central piece in Melville’s contribution to the literature of the Americas.

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“Benito Cereno,” a story of atmospheric Gothic horror and striking political resonance, represents Herman Melville’s most profound and unsettling engagement with the horrors of New World slavery. Narrating the story of a slave revolt using materials drawn from Amasa Delano’s non-fictional account of the Tryal Rebellion from earlier in the nineteenth century, Melville’s story probes the moral complexities of the antebellum United States and its position within the Americas. Melville explores the psychology of slavery and racism and the role of violence in both the resistance to, and the perpetuation of, slavery in the Americas.
The appendices to this volume illustrate how Melville’s satirical treatment of racism and his ambivalent response to violent resistance to slavery connect with antislavery literature (poetry, fiction, and non-fiction alike) in the middle of the nineteenth century, and they also consider how “Benito Cereno” functions as a central piece in Melville’s contribution to the literature of the Americas.

“The Broadview Press edition of Herman Melville’s ‘Benito Cereno’ is vital for teaching, research, and exploring the power of American short fiction. From abolitionist writings to texts about the Haitian Revolution to reflections by Melville’s contemporaries, Brian Yothers has reassembled crucial materials for a profound journey into Melville’s fictional universe. Whether you are interested in the historical context that inspired Melville or the philosophical questions that saturate his art, this captivating edition contains all of the major materials and literary artifacts. If you’re teaching, rereading, or even discovering ‘Benito Cereno’ for the first time, this edition is a fresh and fully updated take on Melville’s classic.” — Christopher Freeburg, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Cuprins

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Herman Melville: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
“Benito Cereno”
Appendix A: Representations of Slave Revolt and the Slave Trade
  • 1. From Amasa Delano, Narrative of Voyages and Travels in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres (1817)
  • 2. From Frederick Douglass, “The Heroic Slave” (1853)
  • 3. From John Quincy Adams, Argument of John Quincy Adams Before the Supreme Court of the United States, in the Case of United States, Appellants, Cinque, and Others, Africans (1841)
  • 4. From Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855)
  • 5. From Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (1856)
  • 6. From The Confessions of Nat Turner (1832)
  • 7. Am I Not a Man and a Brother? (1787)
  • 8. Stowage of the British Slave Ship Brookes under the Regulated Slave Trade Act of 1788
  • 9. The Slave Deck of the Bark “Wildfire” Brought into Key West on 30 April 1860
  • 10. The Abolition of the Slave Trade (1792)
  • 11. Cinque, the Chief of the Amistad Captives (1840)
Appendix B: Herman Melville on Race, Slavery, Colonialism, and Violence
  • 1. From Herman Melville, Typee (1846)
  • 2. From Herman Melville, “Mr. Parkman’s Tour,” New York Literary World (31 March 1849)
  • 3. From Herman Melville, “A Bosom Friend,” in Moby-Dick, or, The Whale (1851)
  • 4. From Herman Melville, “Midnight, Forecastle,” in Moby-Dick, or, The Whale (1851)
  • 5. Herman Melville, “Formerly a Slave,” in Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866)
  • 6. Herman Melville, “The Swamp Angel,” in Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866)
  • 7. From Herman Melville, Supplement to Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866)
  • 8. From Herman Melville, Clarel, A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876)
Appendix C: The Haitian Revolution and the Black Legend
  • 1. John Greenleaf Whittier, “Toussaint L’Ouverture” (1833)
  • 2. William Wordsworth, “To Toussaint L’Ouverture” (1802)
  • 3. From Frank J. Webb, The Garies and Their Friends (1857)
  • 4. Toussaint Louverture
  • 5. From Daniel Defoe, The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719)
  • 6. From James Montgomery, The West Indies (1810)
Appendix D: Anti-Slavery Rhetoric and Poetry
  • 1. From Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” (5 July 1852)
  • 2. Frederick Douglass, “A Parody,” in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845)
  • 3. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point” (1849)
  • 4. James Russell Lowell, “The Present Crisis” (1844)
  • 5. James M. Whitfield, “To Cinque” (1853)
  • 6. James M. Whitfield, “Lines on the Death of John Quincy Adams” (1853)
  • 7. James M. Whitfield, “America” (1853)
  • 8. Frances E.W. Harper, “The Slave Mother. A Tale of the Ohio” (1857)
  • 9. Harriet Beecher Stowe, “Caste and Christ” (1853)
  • 10. From Lydia Maria Child, An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans (1833)
  • 11. Lydia Maria Child, “The Influence of Slavery with Regard to Moral Purity” (1838)
  • 12. Lydia Huntley Sigourney, “To the First Slave Ship” (1827)
Appendix E: Melville and the Theory of Short Fiction
  • 1. From Herman Melville, “Hawthorne and his Mosses,” Literary World (1850)
  • 2. From Edgar Allan Poe, Review of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Twice-Told Tales, Graham’s Magazine (1842)
  • 3. Review of The Piazza Tales, United States Democratic Review (September 1856)
  • 4. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Preface to The House of the Seven Gables (1852)
Works Cited and Select Bibliography

Notă biografică

Herman Melville (1819 - 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet of the American Renaissance period. His best known works include Typee (1846), a romantic account of his experiences in Polynesian life and his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851). His work was almost forgotten during his last thirty years. Herman Melville's writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy and engagement in the contradictions of American society in a period of rapid change. He developed a complex, baroque style: the vocabulary is rich and original, a strong sense of rhythm infuses the elaborate sentences, the imagery is often mystical or ironic and the abundance of allusion extends to scripture, myth, philosophy, literature and the visual arts.