Joyce and the Law

“A capacious, generative, and important collection with far-ranging implications for Joyce studies and for our understanding of literature’s relationship to law. Goldman brings together a tremendous group of scholars, critics, and legal practitioners whose rich perspectives set the terms for an enduring conversation on the place of law in Joyce and in culture broadly conceived.”—Ravit Reichman, author of The Affective Life of Law: Legal Modernism and the Literary Imagination



“Gives us a new map of the busy intersection of Joyce and law. This volume’s contributors rise to the challenge, taking on everything from laws of marriage, immigration, and finance to regimes of intellectual property, libel, and obscenity. Joyce and the Law is as varied and surprising as the law itself.”—Paul K. Saint-Amour, author of Tense Future: Modernism, Total War, Encyclopedic Form



“Draws together an international cohort of Joyce scholars with specialist knowledge in legal considerations shaping events and characters’ motivations in Joyce’s writing.”—Margot Gayle Backus, author of Scandal Work: James Joyce, the New Journalism, and the Home Rule Newspaper Wars

“A superior collection of essays.”—English Literature in Transition



“Brings together 15 essays that provide readers with a rigorous examination of the subject matter, deploying different attitudes towards the reading of literature and law. . . . An impressive collection.”—Review of English Studies



“The law and literature movement has enriched the study of both literature and law in many ways. . . . Joyce and the Law . . . illustrates these currents coming together in Joyce’s writing.”—James Joyce Quarterly



“Brilliantly demonstrates how law and literature intermingle in Joyce’s trajectory but also transcend the case study, opening the door to a new take on high modernist fiction.”—Forum for Modern Language Studies



“The essays of Joyce and the Law expand our understanding of the social milieu that Joyce manifested in his works. . . . [They] continue to reveal just how astute Joyce was as a reader of his world.” —Irish Studies Review