Joyce & Betrayal

James Fraser completed his thesis under the supervision of Derek Attridge at the University of York, UK. He has since lectured at the University of Cambridge and the University of East Anglia, and is currently lecturing in English at the University of Exeter. He spent several years as an editor of Modernism/modernity and currently carries out work on literary modernism.

• Introduction.- Chapter 1. Writing Drama, Writing Betrayal.- Chapter 2. “Boyhood” as “Death”.- Chapter 3. “A nation exacts a penance”.- Chapter 4. “Like thieves in the night”.- Chapter 5. Betrayal, Stagnation, and the Family Romantic in Ulysses.- Chapter 6. Betraying Bloom.- Chapter 7. Sexual Betrayal in “Penelope”.- Coda.- Bibliography.

“Joyce & Betrayal serves as a provocation to those involved in ethical criticism, even to the extent of providing an intelligent and useful corrective. … Fraser does more than fill a gap in Joyce studies. This book should call upon us to see Joyce, and his writing of relationships both political and personal, in a new light.” (Janine Utell, James Joyce Literary Supplement, Vol. 32 (1), 2018)