Joyce and the Law

ISBN-13: 9780813054742 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 288 str.

Jonathan Goldman

Opis

"A capacious, generative, and important collection with far-ranging implications for Joyce studies and for our understanding of literature's relationship to law."--Ravit Reichman, author of The Affective Life of Law: Legal Modernism and the Literary Imagination "Gives us a new map of the busy intersection of Joyce and law. This volume's contributors rise to the challenge, taking on everything from laws of marriage, immigration, and finance to regimes of intellectual property, libel, and obscenity."--Paul K. Saint-Amour, author of Tense Future: Modernism, Total War, Encyclopedic Form "Draws together an international cohort of Joyce scholars with specialist knowledge in legal considerations shaping events and characters' motivations in Joyce's writing."--Margot Gayle Backus, author of Scandal Work: James Joyce, the New Journalism, and the Home Rule Newspaper Wars Making the case that legal issues are central to James Joyce's life and work, international experts in law and literature offer new insights into Joyce's most important texts. They analyze Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Giacomo Joyce, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake in light of the legal contexts of Joyce's day. Topics include marriage laws, the Aliens Act of 1905, laws governing display and use of language, minority rights debates, municipal self-government, and regulations on alcohol consumption and licensing. This volume also highlights Joyce's own fascination with law and legal inquiry, his use of a "trademark" visual and linguistic style, the obscenity cases brought against Ulysses, and how copyright has affected publication of Joyce's work. These discussions show how reading Joyce alongside the law enriches both legal studies and literary scholarship.