1. Benito Cereno

2. 1)Melville’s life and career

3. poster protesting the return of Thomas Sims

4. “picturesque & of a profound morality” -editor who published Benito Cereno

5. portrait of Amasa Delano

6. further reading Amasa Delano, A Narrative of Voyages and Travels (1817) on course website Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) on google books James Wood, How Fiction Works (2008)

7. 1)Melville’s life and career 2)Delano’s Narrative

8. Delano’s Narrative genreformcontent ship’s logobjective, rigid conventionsday of rescue, seen from Delano’s ship

9. Delano’s Narrative genreformcontent ship’s logobjective, rigid conventionsday of rescue, seen from Delano’s ship personal narrativesubjective, free formday of rescue, seen from Cereno’s ship

10. Delano’s Narrative genreformcontent ship’s logobjective, rigid conventionsday of rescue, seen from Delano’s ship personal narrativesubjective, free form-voyage before encounter -day of rescue, seen from Cereno’s ship

11. Delano’s Narrative genreformcontent ship’s logobjective, rigid conventionsday of rescue, seen from Delano’s ship personal narrativesubjective, free form-voyage before encounter -day of rescue, seen from Cereno’s ship -conflict with Cereno after

12. Delano’s Narrative genreformcontent ship’s logobjective, rigid conventionsday of rescue, seen from Delano’s ship personal narrativesubjective, free form-voyage before encounter -day of rescue, seen from Cereno’s ship -conflict with Cereno after court documentsobjectivity out of subjectivity, rigid conventions day of rescue, seen in full

13. 1)Melville’s life and career 2)Delano’s Narrative 3)Melville’s use of Delano’s Narrative decisions about content choosing protagonist

14. 1)Melville’s life and career 2)Delano’s Narrative 3)Melville’s use of Delano’s Narrative decisions about content choosing protagonist adding, deleting, altering details

15. 1)Melville’s life and career 2)Delano’s Narrative 3)Melville’s use of Delano’s Narrative decisions about content decisions about form narration focalization

16. 1)Melville’s life and career 2)Delano’s Narrative 3)Melville’s use of Delano’s Narrative decisions about content decisions about form narration focalization free indirect style

17. free indirect discourse direct discourse: He looked over at his wife. “She looks so unhappy,” he thought, “almost sick.” He wondered what to say. indirect discourse: He looked at his wife. She looked so unhappy, he thought, almost sick. He wondered what to say. free indirect discourse: He looked at his wife. Yes, she was tiresomely unhappy again, almost sick. What the hell should he say?

18. Delano on Africans “odd-looking blacks... those old scissors- grinders, the Ashantees... those bed-ridden old women, the oakum-pickers” “peculiar love of uniting industry with pleasure” “less a servant than a devoted companion” “like a shepherd’s dog” “unsophisticated as leopardesses, loving as doves”

19. 1)Melville’s life and career 2)Delano’s Narrative 3)Melville’s use of Delano’s Narrative decisions about content decisions about form narration court documents

20. It is a great pity [Melville] did not work it up as a connected tale instead of putting in the dreary documents at the end.—They should have made part of the substance of the story... I should alter all the dreadful statistics at the end. Oh! dear, why can’t Americans write good stories. They tell good lies enough, & plenty of them.” -editor who published the novella, in a private letter to a friend