Up to maughty London : Joyce's cultural capital in the imperial metropolis / Eleni Loukopoulou ; foreword by Sebastian D. G. Knowles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Loukopoulou, Eleni, author.

Contributor:

Knowles, Sebastian D. G. (Sebastian David Guy), writer of foreword.

Series:

Florida James Joyce series.

The Florida James Joyce Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Joyce, James, 1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation.

Joyce, James.

London (England)--History.

London (England).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (357 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, Florida : University Press of Florida, 2017.

Summary:

"Fundamentally alters the received wisdom that tends to award Paris a far more central place in the making of Joyce the modernist."-- John McCourt , author of The Years of Bloom: James Joyce in Trieste 1904-1920 "In readings equally attentive to text, avant-text, and context, this book shows us how many roads in Joyce's life and work led to London.

Contents:

Cover

Up to Maughty London

Title

Copyright

CONTENTS

List of Figures

Foreword

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Part I: "London" in Joyce's Work

1. The London Connection: Aspirations, Formations, and Textual Transformations

2. "Londublin": The Linguistic and Spatial Politics of "Oxen of the Sun"

3. The Geohistory of Two Cities in Finnegans Wake

Part II: Joyce's Work in London and England

4. Joyce Anthologized in Post-Ulysses England

5. Joyce and the British Avant-Garde

6. The Making of a London Author

Conclusions

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

978-0-8130-5262-5

0-8130-5262-9

OCLC:

995199467