... of the Artist as a Young Man to Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. Essays address Joyce’s engagement with paralysis, masculinity, childhood violence, trauma, disordered eating, blindness, nineteenth-century theories of degeneration, and the concept of “madness.” Together...

... tropes in order to rationalize the connections he hoped to make between the continental United States and the island. While Rosskam’s novel explored the productive possibilities of class-based color–blind politics, its emphasis on insularity simultaneously reinforced whiteness and characterized...

...The blind stripling in James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922) has long been a figure of great interest to Joycean scholarship. His visual impairment has been allied autobiographically to Joyce’s own eye troubles, and his character has been said to represent the critical symbolic link between...

...This chapter’s aim will be to illustrate Joyce’s attempt to textualize his personal experience with illness, through the analysis of a very particular piece of writing, namely the fragment “Twilight of Blindness Madness Descends on Swift”. Placed at the border between private and public writing...