Joyce and the G-Men: J. Edgar Hoover's Manipulation of Modernism

Culleton (20th-century British and Irish literature, Kent State U.) traces the odd relationship between Irish writer James Joyce (1882- 1941) and the US Federal Bureau of Information under its first and long-time director Hoover (1895-1972). She places that in the context of Hoover's persistent intervention in literary modernism not only in America but also in Britain, Germany, Ireland, and elsewhere. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR