SOURCE: “‘The Creature of His Own Tasteful Hands’: Herman Melville's Benito Cereno and the ‘Empire of Might,’” in Modern Philology, Vol. 93, No. 4, May, 1996, pp. 445-67.
In the following essay, Bartley analyzes “Benito Cereno” as a portrayal of inverted tyranny.
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