James Joyce, Ulysses, and the construction of Jewish identity
Subtitle: culture, biography, and "the Jew" in modernist Europe
By: Neil R. Davison.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
Subjects: Joyce, James, 1882-1941.; Joyce, James, 1882-1941 -- Religion.; Joyce, James, 1882-1941 -- Characters -- Jews.; Jews in literature.; Antisemitism -- History -- 20th century.; Bloom, Leopold (Fictitious character); Stereotype (Psychology) in literature.; Novelists, Irish -- 20th century -- Biography.
Description: Representations of "the Jew" have long been a topic of interest in Joyce studies; in James Joyce, Ulysses, and the construction of Jewish identity Neil R. Davison argues that Joyce's lifelong encounter with pseudo-scientific, religious, and political discourse about "the Jew" forms a unifying component of his career.

Davison offers new biographical material to support the claim that "the Jew" was a dynamic aspect of Joyce's imagination from youth to adulthood, and presents a detailed reading of Ulysses to show how Joyce draws on Christian folklore, Dreyfus Affair propaganda, Sinn Fein politics, and theories of Jewish sexual perversion and financial conspiracy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-297) and index.