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Mullin, Katherine. James Joyce, Sexuality and Social Purity.(Book Review)

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From: Studies in the Novel
Date: 20051222
Author:Russell, Richard Rankin

MULLIN, KATHERINE. James Joyce, Sexuality and Social Purity. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 224 pp. $60.00.

Katherine Mullin's new study of the influence of the American, British, and Irish social purity movements upon James Joyce's fiction through Ulysses argues that Joyce, rather than being the hapless victim of the censors he is often portrayed to be, actually subversively engaged in battles against the social purity reforms of his day through a plethora of intertexts allusive to this movement. While Richard Brown's 1985 study, James Joyce and Sexuality, held ...

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