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Title:
The most dangerous book : the battle for James Joyce's Ulysses / Kevin Birmingham.
Author:
Birmingham, Kevin.
Publication Information:
New York : The Penguin Press, 2014.
Call Number:
PR6019 .O9 U6257 2014
Abstract:
An account of the dramatic writing of and fight to publish James Joyce's "Ulysses" reveals how the now classic book was the subject of a landmark federal obscenity trial in 1933 that overturned key censorship laws.
ISBN:
9781594203367
Physical Description:
417 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents:
Nighttown -- Nora Barnacle -- vortex -- Trieste -- Smithy of souls -- Little modernisms -- Medici of Modernism -- Zurich -- Power and postage -- Woolfs -- Brutal madness -- Shakespeare and Company -- Hell in New York -- Ghost of Comstock -- Elijah is coming -- People of the State of New York v. Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap -- Circe burning -- bible of the outcasts -- booklegger -- King's chimney -- pharmacopeia -- Glamour of the clandestine -- Modern classics -- Treponema -- Search and seizure -- United States of America v. One Book Called "Ulysses" -- tables of the law.
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