James Joyce and Catholicism: The Apostate's Wake

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title James Joyce and Catholicism: The Apostate's Wake
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Dr Chrissie Van Mierlo
SeriesHistoricizing Modernism
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:176
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
Category/GenreLiterary studies - from c 1900 -
Literary studies - fiction, novelists and prose writers
ISBN/Barcode 9781350081680
ClassificationsDewey:823.912
Audience
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publication Date 24 January 2019
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

James Joyce and Catholicism is the first historicist study to explore the religious cultural contexts of Joyce's final masterpiece. Drawing on letters, authorial manuscripts and other archival materials, the book works its way through a number of crucial themes; heresy, anticlericalism, Mariology, and others. Along the way, the book considers Joyce's vexed relationship with the Catholic Church he was brought up in, and the unique forms of Catholicism that blossomed in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and during the first years of the Irish Free State.

Author Biography

Chrissie Van Mierlo teaches at the School of Arts, English and Drama at Loughborough University, UK.

Reviews

This is a most engaging and impressive book. In terms of its critical focus and style, it should serve as a model for future monographs on the Wake. Van Mierlo manages to be clear and detailed, and yet she never loses sight of both the "human drama" of the Wake as well as its stylistic and formal charms and complexities. * James Joyce Quarterly * [The author] deploys genetic scrutiny of [Joyce's] source material ... Van Mierlo supplies important historical and textual reasons for understanding the 'saturation' of Joyce's work in 'culture of Irish Catholicism that existed in Victorian and Edwardian Dublin'. * Forum for Modern Language Studies *