Joyce's revenge
Subtitle: history, politics, and aesthetics in Ulysses
By: Andrew Gibson.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
Subjects: Joyce, James, 1882-1941; Joyce, James, 1882-1941 -- Political and social views; Joyce, James, 1882-1941 -- Aesthetics; Politics and literature -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century; Literature and history -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century; Great Britain -- Relations -- Ireland; Ireland -- Relations -- Great Britain; Ireland -- In literature
Description: "The Ireland of Ulysses was still a part of Britain. This book is the first comprehensive, historical study of Joyce's great novel in the context of Anglo-Irish political and cultural relations in the period 1880-1920. The first forty years of Joyce's life also witnessed the emergence of what historians now call English cultural nationalism. This formation was perceptible in a wide range of different discourses. Ulysses engages with many of them. In doing so, it resists, transforms, and works to transcend the effects of British rule in Ireland. The novel was written in the years leading up to Irish independence. It is powered by both a will to freedom and a will to justice. But the two do not always coincide, and Joyce did not place his art in the service of any existing political cause. His struggle for independence has its own distinctive mode. The result is a work of liberation - and revenge."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-298) and index.