The the battle for James Joyce's Ulysses Birmingham, Kevin 1974- creator text bibliography nyu 2014 monographic eng

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417 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm 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. Kevin Birmingham. Includes bibliographical references and index. Joyce, James 1882-1941 Joyce, James 1882-1941 Criticism, Textual Authors and publishers History 20th century Law and literature History 20th century Trials (Obscenity) History 20th century PR 6019 B619m 2014 823/.912 9780143127543 0143127543 2013039967 DLC 131126 20260716124612.0 17955665 eng