James Joyce

This innovative series meets the urgent need for comprehensive new accounts of Irish writing across the centuries which combine readability with critical authority and information with insight. Each volume addresses the whole range of a writer's work in the various genres, setting its vision of the world in biographical context and situating it within the intellectual, cultural and political currents of the age, in Ireland and the wider world. This series will prove indispensable for students and specialists alike.

James Joyce draws on the work of leading contemporary scholars to provide an original and detailed overview of Joyce's life and writings. Essays introduce major works like Ulysses while also addressing topics like feminism, literary theory, cultural studies, and reception history.

The book offers an effective introduction to Joyce's life and work useful to undergraduate and graduate students. These lively, accessible essays mix broad overviews with fresh insights into the dazzling work of the twentieth century's most influential novelist.