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JJQ
:
James Joyce Quarterly
LI, LII, LIII
:
The Letters of James Joyce
, vols. 1, 2 and 3
LR
:
The Little Review
LSB
:
The Letters of Sylvia Beach
MBK
:
Stanislaus Joyce,
My Brother’s Keeper: James Joyce’s Early Years
MNY
:
B. L. Reid,
The Man from New York: John Quinn and His Friends
NYT
:
New York Times
SBLG
:
Noël Riley Fitch,
Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the
Twenties and Thirties
SC
:
Sylvia Beach,
Shakespeare and Company
SL
:
Selected Letters of James Joyce
TWQ
:
Two Worlds Quarterly
TYW
:
Margaret C. Anderson,
My Thirty Years’ War: An Autobiography by Margaret Anderson
UvU
:
United States of America v. One Book Entitled Ulysses by James Joyce: Documents and
Commentary: A 50-Year Retrospective
ABBREVIATIONS OF NAMES
EH:
Ernest Hemingway
EP:
Ezra Pound
JJ:
James Joyce
JQ:
John Quinn
MCA:
Margaret Anderson
NB:
Nora Barnacle
SB:
Sylvia Beach
SJ:
Stanislaus Joyce
VW:
Virginia Woolf
INTRODUCTION
“
Ulysses
lay stacked”
:
Cyril Connolly,
Enemies of Promise
, p. 75, qtd. in
SBLG
, p. 14.
“tyrants willing to be”
:
JJ,
Ulysses
, ed. Hans Walter Gabler (New York: Vintage Books, 1993), p. 24 (2: 171–2).
societies for the “suppression”
:
R. J. Morris, “Voluntary Societies and British Urban Elites, 1780–1850: An Analysis,”
Historical Journal
26, no. 1 (1983), pp. 95–118.
helped write
:
M.J.D. Roberts, “Morals, Art, and the Law: The Passing of the Obscene Publications Act, 1857,”
Victorian Studies
28, no. 4 (1985), p. 621.
ebb and flow
:
Colin Manchester, “Lord Campbell’s Act: England’s First Obscenity Statue,”
Journal of Legal History
9, no. 2 (1988), pp. 223–41.
“Lust defiles”
:
Anthony Comstock,
Frauds Exposed;
Or, How the People Are Deceived and Robbed, and Youth Corrupted
(New York: J. H. Brown, 1880), p. 416.
“obscene, lewd”
:
17 Stat. 598 (1873). Current version at 18 U.S.C. § 1461 (1988).
concealed the scar
:
Anna Louise Bates,
Weeder in the Garden of the Lord: Anthony Comstock’s Life and Career
(Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1995), p. 56.
“You must hunt”
:
Comstock qtd. Timothy Gilfoyle,
City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790–1920
(New York: Norton, 1992), p. 188.
“If we can’t write”
:
EP, “Meditatio,”
Egoist
3, no. 3 (March 1, 1916), pp. 37–38, reprinted in
EP/JJ
, p. 73.
“an assembly”
:
EP to W. H. Taft, Dec. 1, 1928, Yale Pound, Box 53 Folder 2418.
a million times
:
Helen Nutting Diary, Tulsa, Series 1 Box 176.
“willful women”
:
JQ to EP, June 2, 1917, NYPL.
“stupid charlatans”
:
Ibid., Oct. 16, 1920.
squabbles
:
See, e.g., “An International Episode,”
LR
5, no. 7 (Nov. 1918), pp. 34–7.
“skoom”
:
LR
7, no. 3 (Sept.-Dec. 1920), p. 73.
chocolates and typewriters
:
E.g.,
LR
5, no. 3 (July 1918), p. 66, and
LR
6, no. 3 (July 1919), p. 2.
“beyond doubt”
:
Israel Solon, “The December Number,”
LR
6, no. 9 (Jan. 1920), p. 30.
“freak magazine”
and
“throwing chunks”:
LR
5, no. 3 (July 1918), p. 64.
“slings ‘obscenities’ ”
and
“vulgar!”:
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, “The Modest Woman,”
LR
7, no. 2 (July–Aug. 1920), p. 40.
“There is hell”
:
JJ to Frank Budgen, Nov. 1922 (n.d.),
LIII
, p. 30.
“Each month he’s worse”
and
“has no concern”:
LR
5, no. 2 (June 1918), p. 54.
“utter amazement”
and
“the most remote”:
Simone de Beauvoir,
“The Useless Mouths” and Other Literary Writings
(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011), p. 316.
“slit open”
:
JJ to SB, April 25, 1924,
JJ/SB
, p. 38.
“hurt like hell”
:
EH to JJ, Jan. 30, 1928, in Ernest Hemingway,
Selected Letters, 1917–1961
(New York: Scribner, 1981), p. 271.
trace phrases blindly
:
Myron Nutting to Ellmann, April 26, 1955, Tulsa, Series 1 Box 176.
“You are an”
:
Burton Rascoe,
A Bookman’s Daybook
(New York: H. Liveright, 1929), p. 27.
“full of the filthiest”
:
Paul Claudel to Adrienne Monnier, Dec. 28, 1931, Berg Collection, NYPL (translated from French).
“the excrementitious”
:
Rebecca West, “The Strange Case of James Joyce,”
Bookman
, Sept. 1928, pp. 9–23.
belatedly acknowledged
:
Maria Jolas, “The Joyce I Knew and the Women Around Him,”
Crane Bag
4, no. 1 (1980), p. 86.
several scholars
:
See, also Joseph Kelly,
Our Joyce: From Outcast to Icon
(Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998); Paul Vanderham,
James Joyce and Censorship: The Trials of Ulysses
(New York: New York University Press, 1998); and Bruce Arnold,
The Scandal of Ulysses
(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991).
devotes two pages
:
Ell, pp. 502
–
3.
only one page
:
Ibid., pp. 666
–
7 (i.e., two half pages).
immediately after
:
See Richards to JJ, Sept. 24, 1906, Cornell, Series IV Box 13; JJ to SJ, Sept. 30, 1906,
LII
, p. 168.
“the epic of the human body”
:
Frank Budgen,
James Joyce and the Making of Ulysses
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1964), p. 21.
1. NIGHTTOWN
“Now, my darling”
:
JJ to NB, Sept. 7, 1909,
SL
, p. 169.
second city
and
fifth largest:
Joseph O’Brien,
Dear, Dirty Dublin: A City in Distress, 1899–1916
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982), pp. 3–4.
a new law
:
K. T. Hoppen,
Ireland Since 1800: Conflict and Conformity
(New York: Longman, 1998), pp. 11–16.
less than £20
:
O’Brien,
Dear, Dirty Dublin
, p. 6.
Slaughterhouses were scattered
:
Jacinta Prunty,
Dublin Slums, 1800–1925: A Study in Urban Geography
(Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1998), pp. 25, 56.
dozens of people
:
Ibid., p. 32.
dysentery, typhoid and cholera
:
Ibid., pp. 36, 76.
washed the waste
:
O’Brien,
Dear, Dirty Dublin
, p. 18.
heaped in tiny backyards
:
Prunty,
Dublin Slums
, pp. 25, 28, 80; O’Brien, Dear, Dirty Dublin, p. 8.
more likely to die
:
Prunty,
Dublin Slums,
pp. 46, 66.
dug up from graveyards
:
Ibid., p. 25.
“surrender to the trolls”
:
JJ, “Day of the Rabblement,” in
Critical Writings,
ed. Ellsworth Mason and Richard Ellmann (London: Faber and Faber, 1959), p. 71.
“To live”
:
Henrik Ibsen qtd. in Michael Leverson Meyer,
Ibsen: A Biography
(New York: Doubleday, 1971), p. 274.
write to him
:
JJ to Ibsen, March 1901,
SL
, p. 7.
eighty-five copies
:
Ell, pp. 88
–
89;
MBK
, pp. 144
–
5.
One night in 1902
:
Ell, pp. 98
–
100.
recited Ibsen
:
Russell to Lady Gregory, quoted in Ulick O’Connor,
Celtic Dawn: A Portrait of the Irish Literary Renaissance
(London: Hamish Hamilton, 1984), p. 208.
“He is an extremely”
:
Russell qtd. in Ell, p. 100.
“I do so”
and
“shows how rapidly”:
JJ qtd. in Russell’s unpublished account, Ell, p. 103.
“a very delicate”
:
Yeats qtd. in Ell, p. 104.
“I am twenty”
:
JJ qtd. in Yeats account, Ell, pp. 103, 103n.
“We have met”
:
Russell unpublished account, Ell, p. 103.
new set of teeth
:

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