Up to Maughty London

"Fundamentally alters the received wisdom that tends to award Paris a far more central place in the making of Joyce the modernist."-- John McCourt , author of The Years of Bloom: James Joyce in Trieste 1904-1920 "In readings equally attentive to text, avant-text, and context, this book shows us how many roads in Joyce's life and work led to London. Yet the first city of the British Empire is also decentered here, enmeshed by Joyce with Dublin through the place names, cartographies, and imperial