James Joyce

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Standard Name: Joyce, James
Irish exile JJ , hailed by Yeats as a new kind of novelist even before his first novel was published, became one of the leading practitioners of modernism. As well as poems, a play, and a volume of short stories, he produced three important novels, from the last of which he put out several separate sections long before the whole appeared. Joyce encountered obstacles to publishing almost all his books, raised by censors both official and self-appointed. Without the tireless patronage of Harriet Shaw Weaver and Sylvia Beach , his last two books might never have been published at all.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence Virginia Woolf
Yet, though her voice (and her social and political views) were and would remain quite different from theirs, she was keenly attentive to the works of male contemporaries who were, like her, working to create...
Friends, Associates Virginia Woolf
Having already begun on James Joyce'sUlysses in The Little Review in March 1918, VW finished reading the book. Genius it has I think, but of the inferior water.
Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Editors Bell, Anne Olivier and Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press, 1977–1984, 5 vols.
2: 199
Publishing Virginia Woolf
Half a century after her death, a change in the law brought VW 's works out of copyright (with those of her contemporary James Joyce ); but this change was reversed on 1 January 1996...
Friends, Associates Virginia Woolf
Leonard Woolf wrote to Eliot, whose Prufrock and Other Observations he had read, to invite him to send some work to the Hogarth Press . The letter led to a meeting, and ultimately to the...
Textual Production Virginia Woolf
VW continued to write personal essays on a range of subjects, some weighty, some witty, but her literary and critical essays are the centre of her work in this genre. In these she wrote about...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Virginia Woolf
Character in Fiction, the further essay which emerged from Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown, is reflective, philosophical, fictional, its tone assertive, witty, ironical, and serious. It ranges
Woolf, Virginia. The Essays of Virginia Woolf. Editors McNeillie, Andrew and Stuart Nelson Clarke, Hogarth Press, 1986–2011, 6 vols.
3: 421
living writers into two...
Literary responses Virginia Woolf
VW wrote to Ethel Smyth that the stories were diversions or treats I allowed myself when I had done my exercise in the conventional style.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press, 1975–1980, 6 vols.
4: 231
An Unwritten Novel, she said, showed her...
Literary responses Jeanette Winterson
This novel received the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters .
Contemporary Authors. Gale Research, 1962–2025, Numerous volumes.
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Kester-Shelton, Pamela, editor. Feminist Writers. St James Press, 1996.
Reviewers in Cosmopolitan, the London Review of Books, The Times, the Financial Times...
Intertextuality and Influence Edith Wharton
These books follow the progress of a budding male author, Vance Weston, who seems unable to achieve his career aspirations either amid the cutthroat New York literary scene or the more relaxed, bohemian one of...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Rebecca West
The title essay, which stands first and is by far the longest, is an exploration of aesthetics, in which James Joyce and Ivan Pavlov figure prominently.
Family and Intimate relationships Dorothy Wellesley
DW seems to have first met Hilda Matheson just before the latter took over the role of central player in Vita Sackville-West 's love-life. But Matheson (director of talks for the BBC , soon to...
Occupation Harriet Shaw Weaver
In August 1921, while she waited for Ulysses' appearance, HSW obtained the rights to all of Joyce 's publications: Chamber Music from Elkin Mathews , and Dubliners and Exiles from Grant Richards . Joyce...
Occupation Harriet Shaw Weaver
Ulysses grossed £2,608 and netted £1,637. Joyce received royalties of £1,636.
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking, 1970.
234, 462
Occupation Harriet Shaw Weaver
The relevant clause in his will states: I leave all my manuscripts to Harriet Shaw Weaver and direct that she have sole decision in all literary matters relating to my writings published and unpublished.
qtd. in
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking, 1970.
305
Friends, Associates Harriet Shaw Weaver
Her friendship with Dora Marsden remained constant until Marsden's mental health deteriorated. Marsden was one of the few people who knew and addressed HSW by her pseudonym, Josephine Wright. After Weaver closed down the...

Timeline

11 January 1904: Father John Creagh began a series of fiery...

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11 January 1904

Father John Creagh began a series of fiery antisemitic sermons in Limerick, which provoked a pogrom.
Tóibín, Colm. “’What is your nation, if I may ask?’”. London Review of Books, 30 Sept. 1999, pp. 37-39.
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2 July 1914: The first issue of the magazine Blast, edited...

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2 July 1914

The first issue of the magazine Blast, edited by Wyndham Lewis , formally announced the arrival of Vorticism, an avant-garde movement in art.
Wees, William C. Vorticism and the English Avant-Garde. University of Toronto Press, 1972.
19, 162-79, 213-27

December 1919: The last issue of The Egoist: An Individualist...

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December 1919

The last issue of The Egoist: An Individualist Review was published.
Sullivan, Alvin, editor. British Literary Magazines: The Modern Age, 1914-1984. Vol. 4, Greenwood Press, 1986.
145
Marsden, Dora, and Harriet Shaw Weaver, editors. The Egoist. Reprint ed., Kraus, 6 vols.
December 1919

1926: Soon after Chatto and Windus published The...

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1926

Soon after Chatto and Windus published The Cantab by Shane Leslie , the book was censured by the Roman Catholic Church , and Leslie (a Catholic himself, who had been critical of James Joyce 's...

1928: Edwin Muir published The Structure of the...

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1928

Edwin Muir published The Structure of the Novel.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Kermode, Frank. “Fiction and E. M. Forster”. London Review of Books, 10 May 2007, pp. 15-24.
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4 December 1931: The BBC announced the resignation of Hilda...

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4 December 1931

The BBC announced the resignation of Hilda Matheson , its director of talks, which she had actually submitted in October. This was the climax of a long-running struggle over a series of talks by Harold Nicolson

1946: Critic Erich Auerbach published, in German,...

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1946

Critic Erich Auerbach published, in German, the influential study which became in its English translation, 1953, Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature. He wrote it at Istanbul, as a Jewish refugee...

By late October 1975: The short-story volume Angels at the Ritz,...

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By late October 1975

The short-story volume Angels at the Ritz, by expatriate Irish writer William Trevor (born Trevor Cox in 1928), was hailed by Graham Greene as probably the best collection of stories since Joyce 's Dubliners...

October 1996: Irish journalist and writer Nuala O'Faolain...

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October 1996

Irish journalist and writer Nuala O'Faolain published her autobiography Are You Somebody? The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman.
“Bowker’s Global Books in Print”. globalbooksinprint.com.

22 January 2008: Day, the fifth novel by Scottish author,...

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22 January 2008

Day, the fifth novel by Scottish author, playwright and stand-up comedian A. L. Kennedy (whose unmentioned first name is Alison), won the 2007 Costa (formerly Whitbread) Book of the Year prize.
“Day: A Novel”. A. L. Kennedy: Books.
Costa Book Awards. http://replay.web.archive.org/20060615002836/http://www.costabookawards.com/.

Texts

Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Egoist, 1917.
Joyce, James. Chamber Music. Elkin Mathews, 1907.
Joyce, James. Dubliners. Grant Richards, 1914.
Joyce, James. Exiles. Grant Richards, 1918.
Joyce, James. Finnegans Wake. Faber and Faber, 1939.
Joyce, James. Pomes Penyeach. Shakespeare and Company, 1927.
Joyce, James. Stephen Hero. J. Cape, 1944.
Joyce, James. Ulysses. Shakespeare and Company, 1922.