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Redburn Information
664 words, approx. 2 pages
 Redburn[1] is a novel by Herman Melville published on September 29, 1849, by Richard Bentley in London and on November 14, 1849, by Harper & Brothers in New York City. The author returned to the tone of his first novels, Typee (1846) and Omoo...


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 Mosaic (Winnipeg)
Social history and the politics of manhood in Melville's 'Redburn.'
01/01/1993: 7,459 words, approx. 25 pages Herman Melville's fictional autobiography, 'Redburn', was an attempt to explore the way that the interaction between capitalism and democracy shapes middle-class male identity. The novel undermines the optimism always associated with the American way of life, where individualism is the norm. The novel shows...
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Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by William H. Gilman
13,217 words, approx. 44 pages
 In the following excerpt, Gilman examines the parallels between Melville's early years and that of his fictional character, Wellingborough Redburn.
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Critical Essay by Douglas Robillard
12,251 words, approx. 41 pages
 In the following excerpt, Robillard discusses Melville's linking of landscape and seascape descriptions with works of art through his character/narrator Wellingborough Redburn, who envisions the entire world as a work of art.
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Critical Essay by Christopher W. Sten
9,698 words, approx. 32 pages
 In the following essay, Sten suggests that Melville's Wellingborough Redburn undergoes not a simple initiation over the course of the novel, but rather the far more complicated and lengthy process of identity formation.


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