Making the case that legal issues are central to James Joyce's life and work, international experts in law and literature offer new insights into Joyce's most important texts. They analyze Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Giacomo Joyce, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake in light of the legal contexts of Joyce's day.
Making the case that legal issues are central to James Joyce's life and work, international experts in law and literature offer new insights into Joyce's most important texts. They analyze Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Giacomo Joyce, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake in light of the legal contexts of Joyce's day.
Jonathan Goldman, professor of English at New York Institute of Technology, is the author of Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity and coeditor of Modernist Star Maps: Celebrity, Modernity, Culture.
A superior collection of essays."—English Literature in
Transition
"Brings together 15 essays that provide readers with a rigorous
examination of the subject matter, deploying different attitudes
towards the reading of literature and law. . . . An impressive
collection."—Review of English Studies
"The law and literature movement has enriched the study of both
literature and law in many ways. . . . Joyce and the Law . . .
illustrates these currents coming together in Joyce's
writing."—James Joyce Quarterly
"Brilliantly demonstrates how law and literature intermingle in
Joyce's trajectory but also transcend the case study, opening the
door to a new take on high modernist fiction."—Forum for Modern
Language Studies
"The essays of Joyce and the Law expand our understanding of the
social milieu that Joyce manifested in his works. . . . [They]
continue to reveal just how astute Joyce was as a reader of his
world." —Irish Studies Review
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