Scandal work
Subtitle: James Joyce, the new journalism, and the home rule newspaper wars
By: Margot Gayle Backus
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Notre Dame, Indiana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780268075910; 9780268022372
Subjects: English newspapers; Sex scandals; Modern; Political and social views; Home rule; History; Sensationalism in journalism; HISTORY
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: James Joyce and the political sex scandal: "The cracked lookingglass of a servant"; title: Unorthodox methods in the home rule newspaper wars: Irish nationalism, Phoenix Park, and the fall of Parnell; title: Investigative, fabricated, and self-incriminating scandal work: from "the maiden tribute of modern Babylon" to the Oscar Wilde trials; title: James Joyce's early scandal work: "never write about the extraordinary"; title: Reinventing the scandal fragment: "smiling at Wild(e) Irish"; title: The protracted labor of the new journalist sex scandal: "lodged in the room of infinite possibilities"; title: James Joyce's self-protective self-exposure: confessing in a foreign language; title: (Re)fusing sentimentalism and scandal: "poor Penelope. Penelope rich"; title: Dublin's tabloid unconscious: "a hairshirt of purely Irish manufacture"; title: Coda: Jamming the imperial circuitry: "the readiest channel nowadays."