James Joyce and Education

Len Platt has published widely on modernist literary culture, especially on the works of James Joyce. He is also a leading expert on early musical theatre and on the exchange and transfer practices that made it a characteristic culture of conservative popular modernism at the fin de siècle.

"Len Platt has produced a ground-breaking book. Joyce and Education is a forensic exploration of how Joyce's work engages with both the social and psychological aspects of schooling. Platt exposes how the structure of schooling and education at the time Joyce was writing, produced hierarchies and elites - something that endures within the education system of the here and now.This scholarly account is highly informative, readable and often amusing. This is a text not only for James Joyce scholars but for all who are concerned with how education policy and practice works to maintain social order and the status quo." - Rosalyn George, Professor of Education

• 1. Contexts and their problematics 2. ‘Pinocchio! Oh Pinocchio! You’re a boy! A real boy!’ — boyology and stories of childhood in Pearse and Joyce. 3. ‘Is it with Paddy Stink and Mickey Mud?’ — systemization and portraits of the artist as schoolboy 4. Early Joyce and radical education 5. A Portrait of the Artist and the cultural politics of the public school novel 6. Education and the social worlds of Ulysses 7. Ulysses and the age of informatics 8. Joyce and the textbook — ‘Oxen of the Sun’ and ‘Eumaeus’ 9. ‘I’m not so ignorant’ — women and education 10. ‘Come si compita cunctitititilatus?’ — education and Finnegans Wake 11. Bibliography