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‘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’.
Trade Review‘
Remaking the Voyage makes a major contribution to Lowry studies, perhaps unsurprisingly given the strength of the academic contributors. It genuinely advances humanistic knowledge of Lowry’s
In Ballast, additionally offering an intriguing identity politics argument or interpretive nexus, comprising cultural and geographical location, class and political awareness/affiliation.’
- Professor Richard J. Lane, Vancouver Island University
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Helen Tookey and Bryan BiggsHaunted by Books: Malcolm Lowry’s Ultramarine and
In Ballast to the White SeaPatrick 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 SeaCian 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 SeaPierre 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 VolcanoChristopher 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
