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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the
Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.
'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'.
Contents
Introduction
Helen Tookey and Bryan Biggs
Haunted by Books: Malcolm Lowry's Ultramarine and In Ballast to the White Sea
Patrick A. McCarthy
'We've got a bastard duke on board': Class, Fantasy and Politics in Malcolm Lowry
Ben Clarke
Malcolm Lowry and the End of Communism
Mark Crawford
In Ballast to the White Sea: The Springboard for Russian Influences on Malcolm Lowry's Visionary Intellect
Nigel H. Foxcroft
In Ballast to the White Sea: A Plunge into the Matrix
Annick Drösdal-Levillain
Walking with Shadows: Index, Inscription and Event in Malcolm Lowry's In Ballast to the White Sea
Cian Quayle
'Hva vet vi?': In Ballast to the White Sea and the Weighting of Evidence
Chris Ackerley
Identity and Doubles: Being and Writing in Malcolm Lowry's In Ballast to the White Sea
Pierre Schaeffer
The Lost Other: Malcolm Lowry's Creative Process
Catherine Delesalle-Nancey
Infernal Discourse: Narrative Poetics among the Ashes of In Ballast to the White Sea and Under the Volcano
Christopher Madden
'Leaning forward eagerly': Malcolm Lowry's Moviegoers and In Ballast to the White Sea
Miguel Mota and Paul Tiessen
From In Ballast to the White Sea to Rumbo al Mar Blanco: The Spanish Reception of Malcolm Lowry's Unfinished Novel
Alberto Lena
'Glimpses of Immortality': Our Voyages with Vik Doyen
Sherrill Grace
