| Description |
417 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Nighttown -- Nora Barnacle -- the vortex -- Trieste -- Smithy of souls -- Little modernisms -- The Medici of Modernism -- Zurich -- Power and postage -- The Woolfs -- Brutal madness -- Shakespeare and Company -- Hell in New York -- The Ghost of Comstock -- Elijah is coming -- The People of the State of New York v. Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap -- Circe burning -- The bible of the outcasts -- The booklegger -- The King's chimney -- The pharmacopeia -- Glamour of the clandestine -- Modern classics -- Treponema -- Search and seizure -- The United States of America v. One Book Called "Ulysses" -- The tables of the law |
| Summary |
An account of the dramatic writing of and fight to publish James Joyce's "Ulysses" reveals how the now classic book was the subject of a landmark federal obscenity trial in 1933 that overturned key censorship laws |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 348-405) and index |
| Subject |
Joyce, James, 1882-1941. Ulysses.
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Joyce, James, 1882-1941. Ulysses -- Criticism, Textual.
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Authors and publishers -- History -- 20th century.
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Law and literature -- History -- 20th century.
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Trials (Obscenity) -- History -- 20th century
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| LC no. |
2013039967 |
| ISBN |
9781594203367 (hardback) |
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