Scandal Work: James Joyce, the New Journalism, and the Home Rule Newspaper Wars

Contents

C o n t e n t s List of Figures ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction. James Joyce and the Political Sex 1 Scandal: “The Cracked Lookingglass of a Servant” o n e Unorthodox Methods in the Home Rule Newspaper 27 Wars: Irish Nationalism, Phoenix Park, and the Fall of Parnell t w o Investigative, Fabricated, and Self-­ Incriminating 59 Scandal Work: From “The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon” to the Oscar Wilde Trials t h re e James Joyce’s Early Scandal Work: “Never Write 87 about the Extraordinary” f o u r Reinventing the Scandal Fragment: “Smiling at 117 Wild(e) Irish” f i v e The Protracted Labor of the New Journalist Sex 139 Scandal: “Lodged in the Room of Infinite Possibilities” s i x James Joyce’s Self-­ Protective Self-­ Exposure: 165 Confessing in a Foreign Language viii Contents s e v e n (Re)Fusing Sentimentalism and Scandal: 181 “Poor Penelope. Penelope Rich” e i g h t Dublin’s Tabloid Unconscious: “A Hairshirt of 201 Purely Irish Manufacture” Coda. Jamming the Imperial Circuitry: 221 “The Readiest Channel Nowadays” Notes 227 Bibliography 271 Index 289 ...