Scandal work : James Joyce, the new journalism, and the home rule newspaper wars / Margot Gayle Backus.

By: Backus, Margot Gayle, 1961-Material type: TextTextPublisher: Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2013]Copyright date: 2013Description: 1 online resource (326 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780268075910Subject(s): Joyce, James, 1882-1941 -- Political and social views | Sex scandals -- Great Britain -- History | Home rule -- Ireland | Sensationalism in journalism -- Great Britain | English newspapers -- Great Britain -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Scandal work : James Joyce, the new journalism, and the home rule newspaper wars.DDC classification: 823/.912 LOC classification: PR6019.O9 | Z5256515 2013Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Introduction: James Joyce and the political sex scandal: "The cracked lookingglass of a servant" -- Unorthodox methods in the home rule newspaper wars: Irish nationalism, Phoenix Park, and the fall of Parnell -- Investigative, fabricated, and self-incriminating scandal work: from "the maiden tribute of modern Babylon" to the Oscar Wilde trials -- James Joyce's early scandal work: "never write about the extraordinary" -- Reinventing the scandal fragment: "smiling at Wild(e) Irish" -- The protracted labor of the new journalist sex scandal: "lodged in the room of infinite possibilities" -- James Joyce's self-protective self-exposure: confessing in a foreign language -- (Re)fusing sentimentalism and scandal: "poor Penelope. Penelope rich" -- Dublin's tabloid unconscious: "a hairshirt of purely Irish manufacture" -- Coda: Jamming the imperial circuitry: "the readiest channel nowadays".
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: James Joyce and the political sex scandal: "The cracked lookingglass of a servant" -- Unorthodox methods in the home rule newspaper wars: Irish nationalism, Phoenix Park, and the fall of Parnell -- Investigative, fabricated, and self-incriminating scandal work: from "the maiden tribute of modern Babylon" to the Oscar Wilde trials -- James Joyce's early scandal work: "never write about the extraordinary" -- Reinventing the scandal fragment: "smiling at Wild(e) Irish" -- The protracted labor of the new journalist sex scandal: "lodged in the room of infinite possibilities" -- James Joyce's self-protective self-exposure: confessing in a foreign language -- (Re)fusing sentimentalism and scandal: "poor Penelope. Penelope rich" -- Dublin's tabloid unconscious: "a hairshirt of purely Irish manufacture" -- Coda: Jamming the imperial circuitry: "the readiest channel nowadays".

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