Description: 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" 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.
Brief description: Katharine Mullin is Research Fellow at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Her work has appeared in Semicolonial Joyce ed. Derek Attridge and Marjorie Howes (Cambridge, 2000) and in Modernism/ Modernity.
Review Quotes: "Mullin demonstrates convincingly that [Joyce's] particular responses could be more wide-ranging, complex and subtle than has been noticed. Mullin's book impresses throughout...Any reader will find new information here, probably on a wide range of topics. This is a book which anyone interested in Joyce and his contexts should read." David G. Wright, University of Auckland, English Literature in Transition 1880-1920