Melville's Secret Sex Text: Decoding His 1849 Novel Redburn, by Jonathan Ned Katz

Jonathan Ned Katz's essay analyzing Henry Melville's novel was published in The Village Voice Literary Supplement, April 1982, pages 10-12. It was first republished on OutHistory in 2020.

Published here in 2024 for the first time is also the original, longer, scholarly version of 1982, with citations, from which the Village Voice version was adapted.

Both are copyrighted by Jonathan Ned Katz.