James Joyce, Sexuality And Social Purity

This original study reevaluates central texts of the modernist canon–Eliot's early poetry including The Waste Land, Joyce's Ulysses and Proust's Remembrance of Things Past–by examining sexual energies and identifications in them that are typically regarded as perverse.

James Joyce: A Critical Guide presents a full and comprehensive account of the major writing of the great modernist novelist James Joyce. Ranging right across Joyce's literary corpus from his earliest artistic beginnings to his mature prose masterpieces Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, the book provides detailed textual analysis of each of his major works. It also provides an extended discussion of the biographical, historical, political and social contexts that inform Joyce's writing and a wide-ranging discussion of the multiple strands of Joyce criticism that have established themselves over the last eighty years…