Description: One may wonder that new ways of reading James Joyce continue to emerge, but as Jonathan Goldman and his fourteen contributors demonstrate, Joyce's key writings beg to be analyzed alongside Irish law and legal history. Together, these essays demonstrate how legal research elucidates the movements and motivations of Joyce's characters and the language and shape of his narratives.
Brief description: Jonathan Goldman, professor of English at New York Institute of Technology, is the author of Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity and coeditor of Modernist Star Maps: Celebrity, Modernity, Culture.
Review Quotes: "Brilliantly demonstrates how law and literature intermingle in Joyce's trajectory but also transcend the case study, opening the door to a new take on high modernist fiction."--Forum for Modern Language Studies "The essays of Joyce and the Law expand our understanding of the social milieu that Joyce manifested in his works. . . . [They] continue to reveal just how astute Joyce was as a reader of his world."--Irish Studies Review