Reading Joyce Politically

by Trevor L. Williams

"For most Joyce readers being Irish means being anti-British, anti-capitalist, anti-upper class, and occasionally even anti-clerical, so we need to be reminded just how political the concerns of Joyce's characters really were. . . . [This] study goes a long way in debunking the old critical shibboleth, fostered by Joyce himself, that he was not a 'political' writer, a notion that his character/surrogate, Stephen Dedalus, belies with his pledge to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813015138
• ISBN13: 9780813015132
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"