Joyce and Company

David Pierce is Principal Lecturer of English at the University College of Ripon and York St. John. His books include James Joyce's Ireland (Yale, 1992) and Light, Freedom and Song: A Cultural History of Irish Writing (Yale, 2005).

'David Pierce might well be the ideal reader of the work of James Joyce. His interpretations are both sensitive and sensible. In this book his interests range from the cultural and intellectual climate that formed the writer Joyce, to the varied ways in which his works have been read by creative writers and ordinary readers.' Prof. Geert Lernout, James Joyce Centre, University of Antwerp, Belgium.

• 1. Introduction; Part I: Joyce and History; 2. Joyce, Sterne and the Eighteenth Century; 3. Joyce, Erudition and the Late Nineteenth Century; Part II: Joyce and the City; 4. 'Wandering Rocks': Reading Dublin 1904; 5. Joyce, Woolf and the Metropolitan Imagination; Part III: Joyce and Language; 6. The Issue of Translation; 7. Joyce's Use of Language in 'Sirens'; Part IV: Joyce and the Contemporary World; 8. On Reading Ulysses after the Fall of the Berlin Wall; 9. Joyce and Contemporary Irish Writing; Select Bibliography; Index.