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1. Rosenheim, Frederick Flight from home.—An analysis of Melville's early books, “Mardi” and “Redburn”, Rosenheim finds, throws light, not only on Melville's character in general, but specifically on two episodes in his early life, which Rosenheim designates “flight from home”. In addition valuable suggestions emerge from these books as to the significance of the writing process itself, the functions for Melville of his literary activity. At the age of seventeen Melville left his home in a little river village outside of Albany for New York City where he shipped as a common sailor boy to Liverpool. From New York to Liverpool was no greater a voyage than from the life in a little village to life in a ship's forecastle, from innocence, Sunday School, the Juvenile Total Abstinence Association, the Anti-smoking Society to association with the off-scourings of civilization, sailors, and their vice, swearing, drinking and disease. Melville left home neither for adventure nor to seek his fortune. He showed no inclination, for example, to find a career on the sea, as a younger brother was later to do in becoming a captain. He was penniless, in patched clothing, bitter, melancholy, and ambitionless. The journey from home was an attenuated running away. Melville,