Joyce's Revenge

Andrew Gibson is Professor of Modern Literature and Theory at Royal Holloway, University of London.

• 1. Patiens Ingemiscit: Stephen Dedalus, Ireland, and History ; 2. Only A Foreigner Would Do: Leopold Bloom, Ireland, and Jews ; 3. Gentle Will is Being Roughly Handled: 'Scylla and Charybdis' ; 4. A Look Around: 'Wandering Rocks' ; 5. History, All That: 'Sirens', 'Cyclops' ; 6. Waking Up in Ireland: 'Nausicaa' ; 7. An Irish Bull in an English Chinashop: 'Oxen of the Sun' ; 8. Strangers in My House, Bad Manners to Them!: 'Circe' ; 9. Mingle Mangle or Gallimaufry: 'Eumaeus' ; 10. An Aberration of the Light of Reason: 'Ithaca' ; 11. The End of All Resistance: 'Penenlope'

[a] superb study ... It is hard to pay sufficient tribute to Gibson's keenly detailed research and grasp of nuance in his discussion ... Joyce's Revenge deserves to become one of the landmarks in criticism devoted to Ulysses. Several chapters alone are worth the price of the book ... Shaprly and lucidly written, his book is accessible to readers who are not Joyce critics.