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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Delano, William Cullen Bryant, Frederick Douglass, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Supreme Court arguments, a previously unpublished blackface skit, and Putnam's Magazine.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Prose: non-fiction Literary essays

• Full title: Benito Cereno
• Author: Herman Melville
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384
• EAN: 9780333914410
• ISBN: 0333914414
• ID: 04058735
• Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
• Dimensions: 138 × 138 mm

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