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"Without hope of any permanent relief": urban poverty in Melville's Redburn.(Abstract)(Critical Essay)

Publication: Melville Society Extracts
Publication Date: 01-JUL-04
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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In a letter to his father-in-law, Lemuel Shaw, Melville dismissed Redburn, along with White-Jacket, as one of two "jobs, which I have done for money-being forced to it, as other men are to sawing wood" (Correspondence, 138). He undertook this job-work in response to the negative reviews of to...

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...Mardi, rapidly composing not one, but two manuscripts designed have the same popular appeal as his first two novels, Typee and Omoo. In pitching the manuscript to his British publisher, Richard Bentley, he described Redburn as "a...

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