James Joyce, Science, and Modernist Print Culture: “The Einstein of English Fiction”

Author:   Jeffrey S. Drouin
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9780415895521


Pages:   166
Publication Date:   23 December 2014
Format:   Hardback
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James Joyce, Science, and Modernist Print Culture: “The Einstein of English Fiction”


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This book makes an important intervention in the ongoing debates about modernism, science, and the divisions of early Twentieth-Century print culture. In order to establish Joyce's place in the nexus of modernism and scientific thought, Drouin uses the methods of periodical studies and textual criticism to examine the impact of Einstein's relativity theories on the development of Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939). Looking at experiments with space, time, motion, and perspective, it rigorously surveys discourse of science and the novel in the print culture networks connected to Joyce, with concrete analysis of avant-garde magazines, newspapers, popular science books, BBC pamphlets, and radio broadcasts between 1914 and 1939. These sources elucidate changes that Joyce made to the manuscripts, typescripts, and page proofs of certain episodes of his final two novels. The new evidence establishes for the first time the nature of the material link between Joyce and non-technical science, and the manner in which Ulysses and Finnegans Wake owe their structure and meaning to the humanistic issues associated with science during the wartime and inter-war years. In examining the relationships between Joyce's later work and the popular science industry, the book elucidates the often conflicting attitudes toward science in inter-war British print culture, filling in a piece of the puzzle that is modernism's relationship to the new physics and, simultaneously, the history of the novel.

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Author:   Jeffrey S. Drouin
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.385kg
ISBN:  

9780415895521


ISBN 10:   0415895529
Pages:   166
Publication Date:   23 December 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

"Introduction Prologue: The Pound Connection 1. Science and the Novel in the Wartime Avant-Garde, 1914-1918 2. ""Wandering Rocks,"" Physics, The Egoist, and The Little Review, 1918-1919 3. ""Ithaca,"" Post-Euclidean Geometry, Relativity, and the Mythic Method, 1920-1922 4. Finnegans Wake and Popular Science in the Inter-War Period, 1923-1929 Epilogue"

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Jeffrey S. Drouin is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Tulsa, USA.

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