... seafaring literature and broaden our understandings of modernism generally. By way of illustration the essay examines the British author James Hanley’s 1938 novel Hollow Sea , which centers on a merchant ship turned troopship during World War I. In its staging of maritime technologies and infrastructures...

... movement.” Focusing here on the British author James Hanley’s Hollow Sea , which looks back from 1938 upon the First World War, Rizzuto elaborates on how Hanley references Conrad but alters his topics to account for merchant sailors and ships that were conscripted into military operations. The novel...

... of hum an time: December 2005 109 Perhaps it was a bower beneath whose leaves T he violets of five seasons reappear And fade, unseen by any hum an eye, W here fairy water-breaks do m urm ur on F o re v er [. . .] (11. 28-32). James Pipkin provocatively describes the bower as Sacred G round...