1st Edition

James Joyce, Science, and Modernist Print Culture “The Einstein of English Fiction”

By Jeffrey S. Drouin Copyright 2015
180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge

This book makes an important intervention in the ongoing debates about modernism, science, and the divisions of early Twentieth-Century print culture. In order to establish Joyce's place in the nexus of modernism and scientific thought, Drouin uses the methods of periodical studies and textual criticism to examine the impact of Einstein's relativity theories on the development of Ulysses (1922)... Read more

Introduction Part I: Ulysses 1: Science and the Novel in the Pre-War and Wartime Avant-Garde, 1914-1918 2: "Wandering Rocks," Physics, The Egoist, and The Little Review, 1918-1919 3: "Ithaca," Post-Euclidean Geometry, and the Mythic Method, 1921-1922 Part II: Finnegans Wake 4: The Novel, Inter-War Popular Science, and the Avant-Garde, 1919-1939 5: Aesthetics and Popular Science in The Enemy, transition, and Work in Progress, 1926-1932 6: The "Final" Form of Finnegans Wake

Biography

Jeffrey S. Drouin is Assistant Professor of English and Co-Director of the Modernist Journals Project at The University of Tulsa. He has recently published "‘MUTUOMORPHOMUTATION’: Horus and Set as Principles of the Digital and Analog in II.2," in "Finnegans Wake": Polyvocal Explorations / Seventeen New Readings of the Chapters, edited by Kimberly Devlin and Christine Smedley.