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    The most dangerous book : the battle for James Joyce's Ulysses / Kevin Birmingham.
    by Birmingham, Kevin.
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    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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