White Lies: Melville's Narratives of Facts
John Samson
John Seelye, Melville, and Axel Carl Bredahl, Melville's Angles of Vision (
Gainesville, Fla., 1972), see Redburn learning relativism. Edgar Dryden,
Melville's Thema- tics, says that Redburn gains a new level of awareness by
accepting guilt.