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A major new biography that reveals how politics profoundly shaped Joyce’s life, thought and writings. The young James Joyce (1882–1941) was forged in the furnace of Irish political controversies, and he brought to his European exile a depth of political insight unmatched among his fellow modernists. In this biography of Joyce in his youth and early exile, acclaimed Irish historian and biographer Frank Callanan uncovers a Joyce who is markedly more politically aware, informed, and complex than the Joyce depicted in Richard Ellmann’s classic account.
Written in a lively style and rich with historical insights, Callanan’s thoroughly researched biography is the first comprehensive account of how Joyce’s Irish and European political and cultural environment shaped his life, thoughts, and writings. Joyce was eight years old in 1890 when the O’Shea divorce scandal tore Irish nationalism apart, leading to the split in the Irish Parliamentary Party, the death of nationalist leader Charles Stewart Parnell, and a long, bitter period dominated by the anti-Parnellite faction. This was the Ireland Joyce grew up in and rebelled against, which influenced his literary direction.
Callanan reveals a Joyce who was a highly original and dissenting Irish nationalist, who refused to openly declare or boast of his nationalism and whose understanding was deepened by living in multicultural Trieste with its tense ethnic politics and different models of statehood. Callanan’s Joyce is as heroic as Ellmann’s modernist artist, but in a more intriguing way—a writer who did not lack political conviction but whose views did not conform to the expectations of his era.
Engaging, witty, profound, and elegant, James Joyce: A Political Life is an authoritative biography that will change how readers perceive Joyce and his politics.
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- Princeton University Press
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- English
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- 9780691227979
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