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Joyce and the Victorians (Florida James Joyce)
Tracey Teets Schwarze
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Description for Joyce and the Victorians (Florida James Joyce)
Hardcover. This text examines the Victorian and Edwardian cultural contexts in Joyce's work. It argues he replicated contemporary behaviours, beliefs and attitudes in his work, but also grappled with whether modern consciousness can resist the ideological force of the culture that produces it. Series: Florida James Joyce Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 490.
Joyce and the Victorians excavates the heretofore largely unexplored territory of the late Victorian and Edwardian cultural contexts of Dubliners, Portrait, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake. Ideologies and icons suffused turn-of-the-century Ireland and, Schwarze argues, Joyce replicated contemporary behaviors, beliefs, and attitudes in his work as carefully as he re-created the pubs and landmarks of his native Dublin. Schwarze also asserts that even as they expose and manifest the social forces at work on the individual, Joyce's short stories and novels also grapple with a fundamental modernist paradox: whether modern consciousness can effectively resist the ideological force of the culture that ... Read more
Joyce and the Victorians excavates the heretofore largely unexplored territory of the late Victorian and Edwardian cultural contexts of Dubliners, Portrait, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake. Ideologies and icons suffused turn-of-the-century Ireland and, Schwarze argues, Joyce replicated contemporary behaviors, beliefs, and attitudes in his work as carefully as he re-created the pubs and landmarks of his native Dublin. Schwarze also asserts that even as they expose and manifest the social forces at work on the individual, Joyce's short stories and novels also grapple with a fundamental modernist paradox: whether modern consciousness can effectively resist the ideological force of the culture that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University Press of Florida
Condition
New
Series
Florida James Joyce
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Florida, United States
ISBN
9780813024370
SKU
V9780813024370
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About Tracey Teets Schwarze
Tracy Teets Schwarze is assistant professor of English at Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Virginia.
Reviews for Joyce and the Victorians (Florida James Joyce)
"Not since Cheryl Herr's Joyce's Anatomy of Culture has a critic shown such wide ranging command of the contrasting elements of Joyce's cultural context." - Michael Patrick Gillespie, Marquette University