Frank Shovlin is Professor of Irish Literature in English at the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool. He is the editor of The Letters of John McGahern (2021) and is working on McGahern's authorized biography.

Journey Westward is a welcome addition to recent historicist work that focuses on contextualizing Dubliners’ position in the Irish Literary Revival. Journey Westward is certainly a useful resource for those seeking to place Joyce’s early work within the context of Revival and also for those interested in Irish literary antecedents of the collection.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction: 'The journey westward'1. 'Endless stories about the distillery': Joyce and Whiskey2. 'Their friends, the French': Joyce, Jacobitism and the Revival3. 'He would put in allusions': The Uses and Abuses of RevivalismConclusion: Protestant Power and Plates of PeasSelect BibliographyIndex

Frank Shovlin is Professor of Irish Literature in English at the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool. He is the editor of The Letters of John McGahern (2021) and is working on McGahern's authorized biography.

Journey Westward is a welcome addition to recent historicist work that focuses on contextualizing Dubliners’ position in the Irish Literary Revival. Journey Westward is certainly a useful resource for those seeking to place Joyce’s early work within the context of Revival and also for those interested in Irish literary antecedents of the collection.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction: 'The journey westward'1. 'Endless stories about the distillery': Joyce and Whiskey2. 'Their friends, the French': Joyce, Jacobitism and the Revival3. 'He would put in allusions': The Uses and Abuses of RevivalismConclusion: Protestant Power and Plates of PeasSelect BibliographyIndex

Frank Shovlin is Professor of Irish Literature in English at the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool. He is the editor of The Letters of John McGahern (2021) and is working on McGahern's authorized biography.

Journey Westward is a welcome addition to recent historicist work that focuses on contextualizing Dubliners’ position in the Irish Literary Revival. Journey Westward is certainly a useful resource for those seeking to place Joyce’s early work within the context of Revival and also for those interested in Irish literary antecedents of the collection.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction: 'The journey westward'1. 'Endless stories about the distillery': Joyce and Whiskey2. 'Their friends, the French': Joyce, Jacobitism and the Revival3. 'He would put in allusions': The Uses and Abuses of RevivalismConclusion: Protestant Power and Plates of PeasSelect BibliographyIndex