Redburn

Redburn
	First edition title page
Author	Herman Melville
Language	English
Genre	Travel literature
Published	1849 (New York: Harper & Brothers); 1849 (London: Richard Bentley);
Publication place	United States, England
Media type	Print
Preceded by	Mardi
Followed by	White Jacket

Redburn: His First Voyage^[1] is the fourth book by the American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1849. The book is semi-autobiographical and recounts the adventures of a refined youth among coarse and brutal sailors and the seedier areas of Liverpool. Melville wrote Redburn in less than ten weeks. While one scholar describes it as "arguably his funniest work",^[2] scholar F. O. Matthiessen calls it "the most moving of its author's books before Moby-Dick".^[3]

^ The full title is Redburn: His First Voyage: Being the Sailor-boy Confessions and Reminiscences of the Son-of-a-Gentleman, in the Merchant Service. See the Library of America edition edited by George Thomas Tanselle. ISBN 0-940450-09-7
^ Blum (2011), 159
^ Matthiessen (1941), 396

[1] The full title is Redburn: His First Voyage: Being the Sailor-boy Confessions and Reminiscences of the Son-of-a-Gentleman, in the Merchant Service. See the Library of America edition edited by George Thomas Tanselle. ISBN 0-940450-09-7

[2] Blum (2011), 159

[3] Matthiessen (1941), 396

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