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The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce is an indispensable scholarly guide to one of the world's most important and influential writers. Fifteen chapters, each written by a leading Joyce scholar, address each of Joyce's major works, key contexts and important themes. This is both an accessible introduction for students and a lively resource for teachers and researchers. This is a much revised and expanded third edition, featuring eleven entirely new essays and four revised essays. The editorial matter (chronology and guide to further reading) has been written from scratch. The third edition creates more space for Joyce's fascination with gender, sex and bodies, and provides renewed attention to his engagement with Irish history. Scholarship on ecocriticism, serialization, editing and publishing is also represented for the first time. Joyce's most influential work, Ulysses, has two dedicated chapters covering different aspects and perspectives, as well as an chapter on its serialization.

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Author:   John Nash (Durham University)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Edition:   3rd Revised edition
ISBN:  

9781009636407

ISBN 10:   1009636405
Pages:   314
Publication Date:   21 August 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: placing Joyce John Nash; 1. Dubliners: narration, church and revival John Nash; 2. Stephen Hero and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: recursion, time, emergence and the nation John Paul Riquelme; 3. Ulysses: form of forms Scarlett Baron; 4. Reading Ulysses historically: modes and methods Andrew Gibson; 5. De-confusing confession at Finnegans Wake Finn Fordham; 6. Joyce's shorter works Vicki Mahaffey; 7. Joyce the Irishman Seamus Deane; 8. Joyce the European Jean-Michel Rabaté; 9. Joyce, colonialism, and nationalism Marjorie Howes; 10. Gender politics Marian Eide; 11. Sex and sexuality Katherine Mullin; 12. James Joyce and the everyday Sean Latham; 13. Joyce and nature Jim Fairhall; 14. Periodical publication and modernism: the case of Ulysses Clare Hutton; 15. Writing, reading, revising, editing, archiving: the sociology of Joyce's writing Dirk Van Hulle.

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John Nash is Professor of English at Durham University and an internationally recognised authority on the work of James Joyce. He is the author of James Joyce and the Act of Reception (Cambridge University Press 2006), editor of James Joyce in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge University Press 2013) and Joyce's Audiences (Rodopi, 2002), and co-editor of Modernism and Non-Translation (Oxford University Press 2019).

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