Scandal work : James Joyce, the new journalism, and the home rule newspaper wars /

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Main Author: Backus, Margot Gayle, 1961-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2013]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: James Joyce and the political sex scandal: "The cracked lookingglass of a servant"
  • Unorthodox methods in the home rule newspaper wars: Irish nationalism, Phoenix Park, and the fall of Parnell
  • Investigative, fabricated, and self-incriminating scandal work: from "the maiden tribute of modern Babylon" to the Oscar Wilde trials
  • James Joyce's early scandal work: "never write about the extraordinary"
  • Reinventing the scandal fragment: "smiling at Wild(e) Irish"
  • The protracted labor of the new journalist sex scandal: "lodged in the room of infinite possibilities"
  • James Joyce's self-protective self-exposure: confessing in a foreign language
  • (Re)fusing sentimentalism and scandal: "poor Penelope. Penelope rich"
  • Dublin's tabloid unconscious: "a hairshirt of purely Irish manufacture"
  • Coda: Jamming the imperial circuitry: "the readiest channel nowadays".