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Book SynopsisThis book explores an amazing transformation of a literary reputation, offering a frank look into how and for whose benefit literary reputations are constructed.
Trade Review"This study of Joyce's literary reputation is extremely interesting and provocative... Joseph Kelly wants us to rethink entirely our notion of who 'James Joyce' is." Morris Beja, Editor, James Joyce Newestlatter
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- One. Joyce the Propagandist
- Joyce’s First Readers
- Politics and the Literary Industry in Ireland
- The Irish Homestead and the Rural Middle Class
- Joyce’s Politics
- Class Conflict in Dubliners
- The Socialist Alternative
- Joyce the Realist
- Two. The Egoist’s Joyce
- Pound’s Half-Thousand
- Eliot’s Geniuses
- Joyce the Egoist
- The Modern Classic
- Three. Ernst’s Joyce
- The Erotic Joyce
- The Second Round: A Test of Beach’s Ulysses
- Morris Ernst and the Obscenity Laws
- Class Conflict
- The Third Round
- The Preparation
- The Modern Classic and the Secretary of the Treasury
- The Briefs
- Ulysses in School
- “The Salutary Forward March”
- Four. Ellmann’s Joyce
- Stanislaus Joyce v. the Critics
- Mason and Ellmann
- Mason’s Objections to James Joyce
- Conjecture: Theory and Practice
- The Gay Betrayers
- Ellmann’s James Joyce
- Canonization and Dissent
- Revisionist Views of Joyce
- Five. Our Joyce
- Criticism, Inc.
- The “Scholarly Critic” of Modern Fiction Studies
- Transition: New York’s Joyce
- The James Joyce Quarterly
- The Joyce Industry
- The International James Joyce Symposia
- The Critical Editions
- Conclusion: The Trouble with Genius
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
