James Joyce in the Nineteenth Century

John Nash

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9781107021884
• eBook ISBN:
  9781107287716
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: English Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

This collection shows the depth and range of James Joyce's relationship with key literary, intellectual and cultural issues that arose in the nineteenth century. Thirteen original essays explore several new themes in Joyce studies, connecting Joyce's writing to that of his predecessors, and linking Joyce's formal innovations to his reading of, and immersion in, nineteenth-century life. The volume begins by addressing Joyce's relationships with fictional forms in nineteenth-century and turn-of-the-century Ireland. Further sections explore the rise of new economies of consumption and Joyce's formal adaptations of major intellectual figures and issues. What emerges is a portrait of Joyce as he has not previously been seen, giving scholars and students of fin-de-siècle culture, literary modernism and English and Irish literature fresh insight into one of the most important writers of the past century.

Table of contents

• Cover
• James Joyce in the Nineteenth Century
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Textual Note
• Introduction: Joyce in the Nineteenth Century
• Part I The Politics of Form in Ireland
• Chapter 1 Joyce and the Nineteenth-Century Irish Novel
• Chapter 2 ‘He Says No, Your Worship’: Joyce, Free Indirect Discourse and Vernacular Modernism
• Chapter 3 ‘That Dubious Enterprise, the Irish Short Story’: The Untilled Field and Dubliners
• Chapter 4 Thinking Forwards, Turning Back: Joyce’s Writings 1898–1903
• Part II Public and Private Economies
• Chapter 5 Underwriting Ulysses: Bloom, Risk and Life Insurance in the Nineteenth Century
• Chapter 6 Ulysses and the Dublin Advertising Business
• Chapter 7 ‘To Arrest Involuntary Attention’: Advertising and Street­-selling in Ulysses
• Chapter 8 ‘Food Values’: Joyce and Dietary Revival
• Part III Formal Adaptations
• Chapter 9 Liberalism and Domesticity in Ulysses
• Chapter 10 Language and (Re)creation: Joyce and Nineteenth-Century Philology
• Chapter 11 Joyce, Darwin and Literary Evolution
• Chapter 12 The Queen Is Not a Subject: Victoria’s Leaves from the Journal in Ulysses
• Chapter 13 Dubliners, ‘the Magic-Lantern Business’ and Pre­Cinema
• Bibliography
• Index