TY  - BOOK
AU  - Birmingham,Kevin
TI  - The most dangerous book: the battle for James Joyce's Ulysses 
SN  - 9780143127543
AV  - PR 6019 B619m 2014
U1  - 823/.912 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - The Penguin Press
KW  - Joyce, James,
KW  - Authors and publishers
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Law and literature
KW  - Trials (Obscenity)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
ER  -