Chrissie Van Mierlo teaches at the School of Arts, English and Drama at Loughborough University, UK.

This is a most engaging and impressive book. In terms of its critical focus and style, it should serve as a model for future monographs on the Wake. Van Mierlo manages to be clear and detailed, and yet she never loses sight of both the “human drama” of the Wake as well as its stylistic and formal charms and complexities.

• Introduction1. Joyce and Catholicism: the reception history2. Our ‘national apostate’3. ‘My unchanging Word is sacred’4. ‘Sweet Madonine’5. ‘Pu Nuseht’AfterwordBibliography

Chrissie Van Mierlo teaches at the School of Arts, English and Drama at Loughborough University, UK.

This is a most engaging and impressive book. In terms of its critical focus and style, it should serve as a model for future monographs on the Wake. Van Mierlo manages to be clear and detailed, and yet she never loses sight of both the “human drama” of the Wake as well as its stylistic and formal charms and complexities.

• Introduction1. Joyce and Catholicism: the reception history2. Our ‘national apostate’3. ‘My unchanging Word is sacred’4. ‘Sweet Madonine’5. ‘Pu Nuseht’AfterwordBibliography

Chrissie Van Mierlo teaches at the School of Arts, English and Drama at Loughborough University, UK.

This is a most engaging and impressive book. In terms of its critical focus and style, it should serve as a model for future monographs on the Wake. Van Mierlo manages to be clear and detailed, and yet she never loses sight of both the “human drama” of the Wake as well as its stylistic and formal charms and complexities.

• Introduction1. Joyce and Catholicism: the reception history2. Our ‘national apostate’3. ‘My unchanging Word is sacred’4. ‘Sweet Madonine’5. ‘Pu Nuseht’AfterwordBibliography