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Redburn's "Prosy Old Guidebook" revisited (in PowerPoint).

Publication: Melville Society Extracts
Publication Date: 01-JUL-04
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Redburn's "Prosy Old Guidebook" revisited (in PowerPoint).(Abstract)(Critical Essay)

Article Excerpt
Chapter 30 of Melville's fourth book Redburn (1849), in which the matured Wellingborough Redburn meditates on his dead father's old copy of The Picture of Liverpool; or Stranger's Guide, forecasts a number of important themes and rhetorical practices that would become characteristic of Melville's craft in Moby-Dick (1851). In his 1938 PMLA article entitled "Redburn's Prosy Old Guidebook," Willard Thorp identified the correct edition (1808) of the actual Picture of Liverpool consulted by Melville for Chapter...

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