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This is the first book to explore the depth and range of Joyce's relationship with nineteenth-century figures and cultural movements.
List of contents
List of illustrations; Textual note; Introduction: Joyce in the nineteenth century John Nash; Part I. The Politics of Form in Ireland: 1. Joyce and the nineteenth-century Irish novel Emer Nolan; 2. 'He says no, your worship': Joyce, free indirect discourse and vernacular modernism Luke Gibbons; 3. 'That dubious enterprise, the Irish short story': The Untilled Field and Dubliners Richard Robinson; 4. Thinking forwards, turning back: Joyce's writings, 1898-1903 Andrew Gibson; Part II. Public and Private Economies: 5. Underwriting Ulysses: Bloom, risk and life insurance in the nineteenth century Jaya Savige; 6. Ulysses and the Dublin advertising business John Strachan; 7. 'To arrest involuntary attention': advertising and street-selling in Ulysses Matthew Hayward; 8. 'Food values': Joyce and dietary revival Helen O'Connell; Part III. Formal Adaptations: 9. Liberalism and domesticity in Ulysses John Nash; 10. Language and (re)creation: Joyce and nineteenth-century philology Sylvain Belluc; 11. Joyce, Darwin and literary evolution Scarlett Baron; 12. The Queen is not a subject: Victoria's Leaves from the Journal in Ulysses Ronan Crowley; 13. 'I bar the magic lantern business': Dubliners and pre-cinema Keith Williams; Bibliography; Index.
About the author
John Nash is the author of James Joyce and the Act of Reception: Reading, Ireland, Modernism (2006) and the editor of Joyce's Audiences (2002). He has published widely on the work of James Joyce and on modern Irish and English literature. He is currently Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Studies at Durham University.
Summary
James Joyce was one of the most important writers of the twentieth century, and a hugely influential figure in modernism and Irish literary culture. This book is the first to take stock of Joyce's widespread links to major figures and movements of the nineteenth century and to read Joyce in detail against the context of nineteenth-century Ireland.
