James Joyce, Ulysses, and the Construction of Jewish Identity

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James Joyce, Ulysses, and the Construction of Jewish Identity is written by Neil R. Davison and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0521636205 (ISBN 10) and 9780521636209 (ISBN 13).

Representations of 'the Jew' have long been a topic of interest in Joyce studies. Neil Davison argues that Joyce's lifelong encounter with pseudo-scientific, religious and political discourse about 'the Jew' forms a unifying component of his career. Davison offers new biographical material, and presents a detailed reading of Ulysses showing how Joyce draws on Christian folklore, Dreyfus Affair propaganda, Sinn Fein politics, and theories of Jewish sexual perversion and financial conspiracy. Throughout, Joyce confronts the controversy of 'race', the psychology of internalised stereotype, and the contradictions of fin-de-siècle anti-Semitism.