James Joyce, sexuality and social purity

Katherine Mullin
Cambridge University Press
9780521827515
0-521-82751-5

Katherine Mullin offers a detailed account of Joyce's lifelong battle against censorship. She reveals how Joyce responded to Edwardian ideologies of social purity by accentuating the "contentious" or "offensive".

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elements in such works as Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Dubliners. This important book, based on prodigious archival research, will change the way Joyce is read and offers crucial insights into the sexual politics of Modernism.