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James Joyce and Sexuality (Paperback, New ed)
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James Joyce and Sexuality (Paperback, New ed)
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This highly original study seeks to correct the critical
misapprehension that James Joyce was a figure who remained aloof
and disengaged from the intellectual and social concerns of his
time. By exploring Joyce's interest in sexual questions, Dr Brown
shows that, on the contrary, his work represents a more complex and
subtle kind of engagement with such concerns. There are four main
areas of interest. The first is Joyce's extensive reading on the
question of marriage and its impact on his work, a subject invested
with greater interest through Joyce's elopement with and delayed
marriage to Nora Barnacle. The second is Joyce's responsiveness to
the new sexual ideology as expounded in the writings of Freud and
Havelock Ellis. Thirdly, Dr Brown considers the feminist dimension
of the oeuvre and explores Joyce's profound concern with
twentieth-century discussions of sexual divisions and difference, a
topic hitherto neglected in the classic critical treatments.
Finally, the book argues for a new type of Joycean aesthetic in
which the major works are analysed as responses to readings of
other texts. Dr Brown offers a substantial and original account of
Joyce's work as modern in its social ideas as well as in its
literary form, and suggests how the stylistic modernity itself may
be seen to arise in part as a response to the difficulties of
dealing with sex.
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