Date / Time
- October 23, 2019
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Scott joins us to discuss Herman Melville’s lesser known masterpiece, the novella Benito Cereno, published in 1855, as the nation stumbled toward civil war. Like the two sides of the coming war, Melville saw in the nation incommensurable ideals, completely in opposition but equally a part of the American body politic.