James Joyce and the Matter of Paris

by Catherine Flynn

In James Joyce and the Matter of Paris, Catherine Flynn recovers the paradigmatic city of European urban modernity as the foundational context of Joyce's imaginative consciousness. Beginning with Joyce's underexamined first exile in 1902-03, she shows the significance for his writing of the time he spent in Paris and of a range of French authors whose works inflected his experience of that city. In response to the pressures of Parisian consumer capitalism,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110848557X
• ISBN13: 9781108485579
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"