James Joyce s interest in medicine has been well established he attempted to embark on medical studies no fewer than three times but a comprehensive assessment of the influence his interest in medicine had on his work has been lacking until now.

In this wide-ranging study, author Vike Plock balances close readings of Joyce s major texts with thorough archival research that retrieves principal late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical debates. The result is a fascinating book that details the ways in which Joyce reconciled, integrated, and blurred the paradigmatic boundaries...

Modernism, Fashion and Interwar Women Writers demonstrates how five female novelists of the interwar period engaged with an emerging fashion discourse that concealed capitalist modernity s economic reliance on mass-manufactured, uniform-looking productions by ostensibly celebrating originality and difference.