Joyce's city : history, politics, and life in Dubliners /

"Joyce's City, by Jack Morgan, includes groundbreaking new interpretations of the stories in James Joyce's Dubliners while exploring the issue of colonialism and the nuanced way in which the historical and the personal intertwine"--Amazon.com.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Morgan, Jack, 1939- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Columbia, Missouri : University Of Missouri Press, [2015]
Edition:	First printing.
Subjects:	Joyce, James, > 1882-1941. > Dubliners > Criticism and interpretation. Modernism (Literature) > Ireland. Ireland > Social conditions > 20th century. Ireland > History > 20th century. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. Dubliners (Joyce, James) 1900 - 1999 Modernism (Literature) Social conditions. Ireland.

Table of Contents:

Dubliners overall : a walk-about
Something coming over him : Joyce's Gothic and "The sisters"
When first my way to fair I took : mission to Araby
Rogue narration in "Two Gallants" and Séamus Ennis's "The dairy maid"
The hope and the pride : "Clay"
Adulterated presence : "A little cloud" and "A painful case"
Washington Irving's Sketch book and Joyce's "The dead"
Queer choirs : sacred music, Joyce's "The dead", and the sexual politics of Victorian aestheticism.