James Joyce in the Nineteenth Century

This is the first book to explore the depth and range of Joyce's relationship with nineteenth-century figures and cultural movements.

John Nash (Edited by)

9781107514744, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 26 March 2015

276 pages, 7 b/w illus.
23 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.45 kg

'This historicist volume is a valuable reinsertion of Joyce back into the century and the city that made him … James Joyce in the Nineteenth Century functions as a needed correction to the overemphasis on Joyce's modernist and Parisian contexts that will be of great use to scholars of the long nineteenth century and to those working in Irish Studies, in particular.' Mary M. Burke, James Joyce Literary Supplement

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.

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.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK], Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH], Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [DSBF]