Remaking the Voyage:New Essays on Malcolm Lowry and In Ballast to the White Sea

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Title

Remaking the Voyage:New Essays on Malcolm Lowry and In Ballast to the White Sea

Subject

Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Description

Who ever thought they would one day be able to read Malcolm Lowry’s fabled novel of the 1930s and 40s, In Ballast to the White Sea? Lord knows, I didn’t’ – Michael Hofmann, TLS This book breaks new ground in studies of the British novelist Malcolm Lowry (1909–57), as the first collection of new essays produced in response to the publication in 2014 of a scholarly edition of Lowry’s ‘lost’ novel, In Ballast to the White Sea. In their introduction, editors Helen Tookey and Bryan Biggs show how the publication of In Ballast sheds new light on Lowry as both a highly political writer and one deeply influenced by his native Merseyside, as his protagonist Sigbjørn Hansen-Tarnmoor walks the streets of Liverpool, wrestling with his own conscience and with pressing questions of class, identity and social reform. In the chapters that follow, renowned Lowry scholars and newer voices explore key aspects of the novel and its relation to the wider contexts of Lowry’s work. These include his complex relation to socialism and communism, the symbolic value of Norway, and the significance of tropes of loss, hauntings and doublings. The book draws on the unexpected opportunity offered by the rediscovery of In Ballast to look afresh at Lowry’s oeuvre, to ‘remake the voyage’.

Creator

Tookey, Helen (editor)
Biggs, Bryan (editor)

Source

https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/34539

Publisher

Liverpool University Press

Date

2020

Contributor

Wahyuni

Rights

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Format

Pdf

Language

English

Type

Textbooks

Identifier

DOI
10.2307/j.ctv13qftxs
ISBN
9781789621839, 9781800348219

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