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Consuming Joyce: 100 Years of Ulysses in Ireland

Consuming Joyce: 100 Years of Ulysses in Ireland

James Joyce's relationship with his homeland was a complicated and often vexed one. The publication of his masterwork Ulysses - referred to by The Quarterly Review as an "Odyssey of the sewer" - in 1922 was initially met with indifference and hostility within Ireland. This book tells the full story of the reception of Joyce and his best-known book in the country of his birth for the first time; a reception that evolved over the next hundred years, elevating Joyce from a writer reviled to one revered.

John McCourt (Professor)

  • Bloomsbury Academic
  • 9781350205826
  • 304 pages
  • Paperback / softback
  • United Kingdom
  • Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers