The most dangerous book : the battle for James Joyce's Ulysses / Kevin Birmingham.
2014
PR6019.O9 U6257 2014 (Mapit)
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Title
The most dangerous book : the battle for James Joyce's Ulysses / Kevin Birmingham.
Author
Birmingham, Kevin, author.
ISBN
9781594203367
1594203369
1594203369
Produced
Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses
Published
New York : The Penguin Press, 2014.
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Description
417 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Call Number
PR6019.O9 U6257 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification
823/.912
Summary
For more than a decade, the book that literary critics now consider the most important novel in the English language was illegal to own, sell, advertise or purchase in most of the English-speaking world. James Joyce's big blue book, Ulysses, ushered in the modernist era and changed the novel for all time. But the genius of Ulysses was also its danger: it omitted absolutely nothing. All of the minutiae of Leopold Bloom's day, including its unspeakable details, unfold with careful precision in its pages. The New York Society for the Suppression of Vice immediately banned the novel as "obscene, lewd, and lascivious." Joyce, along with some of the most important publishers and writers of his era, had to fight for years to win the freedom to publish it. The Most Dangerous Book tells the remarkable story surrounding Ulysses, from the first stirrings of Joyce's inspiration in 1904 to its landmark federal obscenity trial in 1933.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-405) and index.
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Table of Contents
Nighttown
Nora Barnacle
The vortex
Trieste
Smithy of souls
Little modernisms
The Medici of Modernism
Zurich
Power and postage
The Woolfs
Brutal madness
Shakespeare and Company
Hell in New York
The Ghost of Comstock
Elijah is coming
The People of the State of New York v. Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap
Circe burning
The bible of the outcasts
The booklegger
The King's chimney
The pharmacopeia
Glamour of the clandestine
Modern classics
Treponema
Search and seizure
The United States of America v. One Book Called "Ulysses"
The tables of the law.
Nora Barnacle
The vortex
Trieste
Smithy of souls
Little modernisms
The Medici of Modernism
Zurich
Power and postage
The Woolfs
Brutal madness
Shakespeare and Company
Hell in New York
The Ghost of Comstock
Elijah is coming
The People of the State of New York v. Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap
Circe burning
The bible of the outcasts
The booklegger
The King's chimney
The pharmacopeia
Glamour of the clandestine
Modern classics
Treponema
Search and seizure
The United States of America v. One Book Called "Ulysses"
The tables of the law.