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

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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 Lowrys fabled novel of the 1930s and 40s, In Ballast to the White Sea? Lord knows, I didnt Michael Hofmann, TLS

This book breaks new ground in studies of the British novelist Malcolm Lowry (190957), as the first collection of new essays produced in response to the publication in 2014 of a scholarly edition of Lowrys 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 Lowrys 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 Lowrys oeuvre, to remake the voyage.

 

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  • Dimensions: 163 x 239mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Jul 2020
  • Publisher: Liverpool University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781789621839

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Helen Tookey teaches creative writing at Liverpool John Moores University. She has published two poetry collections with Carcanet Press: Missel-Child (2014 shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Prize 2015) and City of Departures (2019 shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2019). She is the author of Anaïs Nin Fictionality and Femininity (Oxford University Press 2003) and co-editor with Bryan Biggs of Malcolm Lowry: From the Mersey to the World (Liverpool University Press 2009). Bryan Biggs has worked at Bluecoat Liverpools contemporary arts centre for over four decades curating numerous exhibitions and live art programmes. In 2017 he directed Bluecoats tercentenary year. He writes on contemporary culture and is co-editor with Julie Sheldon of Art in a City Revisited (Liverpool University Press 2009) and with John Belchem of Liverpool City of Radicals (Liverpool University Press 2011).

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