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Birmingham, Kevin.
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Joyce, James, 1882-1941. Ulysses.
Joyce, James, 1882-1941. Ulysses -- Criticism, Textual.
Joyce, James, 1882-1941 -- Appreciation.
Joyce, Nora Barnacle, 1884-1951.
Authors, Irish -- 20th century -- Biography.
Authors and publishers -- History -- 20th century.
Law and literature -- History -- 20th century.
Trials (Obscenity) -- History -- 20th century.
Prohibited books -- History.
Censorship -- History.
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Birmingham, Kevin.
Joyce, James, 1882-1941. Ulysses.
Joyce, James, 1882-1941. Ulysses -- Criticism, Textual.
Joyce, James, 1882-1941 -- Appreciation.
Joyce, Nora Barnacle, 1884-1951.
Authors, Irish -- 20th century -- Biography.
Authors and publishers -- History -- 20th century.
Law and literature -- History -- 20th century.
Trials (Obscenity) -- History -- 20th century.
Prohibited books -- History.
Censorship -- History.
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The
most
dangerous
book
: the
battle
for
James
Joyce
's
Ulysses
/ Kevin Birmingham.
by
Birmingham, Kevin.
The Penguin Press, 2014.
Call #:
823.912 J89bi
Subjects
Joyce
,
James
, 1882-1941.
Ulysses
.
Joyce
,
James
, 1882-1941.
Ulysses
-- Criticism, Textual.
Joyce
,
James
, 1882-1941 -- Appreciation.
Joyce
, Nora Barnacle, 1884-1951.
Authors, Irish -- 20th century -- Biography.
Authors and publishers -- History -- 20th century.
Law and literature -- History -- 20th century.
Trials (Obscenity) -- History -- 20th century.
Prohibited books -- History.
Censorship -- History.
ISBN:
9781594203367 (hc.)
1594203369 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Battle
for
James
Joyce
's
Ulysses
Description:
417 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [403]-405) and index.
Contents:
Nighttown -- Nora Barnacle -- the vortex -- Trieste -- Smithy of souls -- Little modernisms -- The Medici of Modernism -- Zurich -- Power and postage -- The Woolfs -- Brutal madness -- Shakespeare and Company -- Hell in New York -- The Ghost of Comstock -- Elijah is coming -- The People of the State of New York v. Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap -- Circe burning -- The bible of the outcasts -- The booklegger -- The King'
s
chimney -- The pharmacopeia -- Glamour of the clandestine -- Modern classics -- Treponema -- Search and seizure -- The United States of America v. One
Book
Called "
Ulysses
" -- The tables of the law.
Summary:
"For more than a decade, the
book
that literary critics now consider the
most
important novel in the English language was illegal to own, sell, advertise or purchase in
most
of the English-speaking world.
James
Joyce
s
big blue
book
,
Ulysses
, ushered in the modernist era and changed the novel for all time. But the genius of
Ulysses
was also its danger: it omitted absolutely nothing. All of the minutiae of Leopold Bloom
s
day, including its unspeakable details, unfold with careful precision in its pages. The New York Society for the Suppression of Vice immediately banned the novel as 'obscene, lewd, and lascivious.'
Joyce
, along with some of the
most
important publishers and writers of his era, had to fight for years to win the freedom to publish it. The remarkable story surrounding
Ulysses
, from the first stirrings of
Joyce
's inspiration in 1904 to its landmark federal obscenity trial in 1933. Kevin Birmingham follows
Joyce
's years as a young writer, his feverish work on his literary masterpiece, and his ardent love affair with Nora Barnacle, the model for Molly Bloom.
Joyce
and Nora socialized with literary greats like Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, T.
S
. Eliot and Sylvia Beach. Their support helped
Joyce
fight an array of anti-vice crusaders while his
book
was disguised and smuggled, pirated and burned in the United States and Britain. The long struggle for publication added to the growing pressures of
Joyce
's deteriorating eyesight, finances and home life. The case ultimately rested on the literary merit of
Joyce
's master work. The sixty-year-old judicial practices governing obscenity in the United States were overturned because a federal judge could get inside Molly Bloom'
s
head. Birmingham'
s
archival work brings to light new information about both
Joyce
and the story surrounding
Ulysses
. A gripping examination of how the world came to say yes to
Ulysses
"--Inside cover.
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