James Joyce and Samaritan Hospitality

Richard Rankin Russell is Professor of English and Graduate Program Director in the English department at Baylor University. His books include Seamus Heaney: An Introduction (Edinburgh, 2016); Seamus Heaney’s Regions (Notre Dame, 2014, Robert Penn Warren/Cleanth Brooks Award for literary criticism, Foreword Reviews INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award Finalist—History); Modernity, Community, and Place in Brian Friel’s Drama (Syracuse, 2014); Bernard MacLaverty: New Critical Readings (Bloomsbury, 2013); Peter Fallon: Poet, Publisher, Editor, and Translator (Irish Academic Press, 2013); Poetry and Peace: Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney, and Northern Ireland (Notre Dame, 2010); Bernard MacLaverty (Bucknell, 2009) and Martin McDonagh: A Casebook (Routledge, 2007).

• PrefaceIntroductionChapter One: Haunted by Hospitality in "The Dead" Chapter Two: Joyce, Scripture, and Autobiographical Rescue NarrativesChapter Three: Rewriting the Good Samaritan Parable: The Fictional Rescue Narratives of "Grace" and "Circe"Chapter Four: Bloom as Stranger and Samaritan in "Cyclops," "Oxen of the Sun," and "Circe"Chapter Five: "in orthodox Samaritan fashion": The Parabolic Encounter between Stephen and Bloom in "Eumaeus"Chapter Six: Home to "Ithaca" and "Penelope": Bloom’s Hospitality and Stephen and Molly’s Reactions Chapter Seven: Enfleshed Ethics and the Responsibility of the Reader in the Good Samaritan Parable and the "Nostos" of UlyssesCoda: Enfleshed Ethics and the Responsibility of the Reader in the Good Samaritan Parable and the "Nostos" of UlyssesWorks CitedIndex

While Joyce scholars have long recognised that the theme of hospitality permeates his work, Richard Russell is the first to read both Dubliners and Ulysses through the lens of what he calls the "greatest of all parables." His argument is crisp, lucid and thoroughly readable.