Scandal work : : James Joyce, the new journalism, and the home rule newspaper wars / / Margot Gayle Backus.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Notre Dame, Indiana : : University of Notre Dame Press,, [2013] 2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (326 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: James Joyce and the political sex scandal: "The cracked lookingglass of a servant"
- Unorthodox methods in the home rule newspaper wars: Irish nationalism, Phoenix Park, and the fall of Parnell
- Investigative, fabricated, and self-incriminating scandal work: from "the maiden tribute of modern Babylon" to the Oscar Wilde trials
- James Joyce's early scandal work: "never write about the extraordinary"
- Reinventing the scandal fragment: "smiling at Wild(e) Irish"
- The protracted labor of the new journalist sex scandal: "lodged in the room of infinite possibilities"
- James Joyce's self-protective self-exposure: confessing in a foreign language
- (Re)fusing sentimentalism and scandal: "poor Penelope. Penelope rich"
- Dublin's tabloid unconscious: "a hairshirt of purely Irish manufacture"
- Coda: Jamming the imperial circuitry: "the readiest channel nowadays".