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If my approach to this topic is as much sociological as literary, this is explained by my background and career so far: On the way from Jerusalem to Jericho I fell among sociologists.
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Gordon Bowker (ed.), Malcolm Lowry Remembered (London: Ariel Books, 1985), p. 43.
Jose Ortegay Gasset, Towards a Philosophy of History (New York: Norton, 1941), p. 107.
Margerie Bonner and Harvey Breit (eds), Selected Letters of Malcolm Lowry (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985), p. 66.
Also in Sherrill Grace (ed.), Sursum Corda: The Collected Letters of Malcolm Lowry, vol. 1:1926–46 (London: Cape, 1995), p. 506.
Malcolm Lowry, Dark as the Grave wherein My Friend is Laid (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972).
Malcolm Lowry, October Ferry to Gabriola (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1979), p. 64.
Gordon Bowker, Pursued by Furies: A Life of Malcolm Lowry (London: Harper Collins, 1993; New York: St Martin’s Press, 1995), p. xx.
Bernard Crick, George Orwell (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1980), p. 33.
Deirdre Bair, ‘Samuel Beckett’, in Jeffrey Meyers (ed.), The Craft of Literary Biography (London: Macmillan, 1985), pp. 210–11.
Jaber F. Gubrium, ‘Biographical Work: The Descriptive Organization of Life History’ (unpublished paper, 1985).
Aldous Huxley (ed.), The Letters of D. H. Lawrence (London: Heinemann, 1932), p. 198.
Howard Becker, Outsiders (New York: Free Press, 1963).
Erving Goffman, Asylums (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963).
Also in Gordon Bowker (ed.), Under the Volcano: A Casebook (London: Macmillan, 1987), pp. 349–50.
Bonner and Breit (eds), Selected Letters of Malcolm Lowry, p. 62 (originally published by Cape in 1967).
John Woodburn, ‘Dazzling Disintegration’, Saturday Review of Literature, New York, 22 February 1947, pp. 9–10.
Jacques Barzun, ‘New Books’, Harper’s Magazine, May 1947, p. 487.
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Bowker, G. (1998). Constructing the Biographical Subject: The Case of Malcolm Lowry. In: Gould, W., Staley, T.F. (eds) Writing the Lives of Writers. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26548-0_18
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