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Acknowledgments Some of the chapters in this book were first written as conference papers and eventually published in volumes growing out of Joyce conferences or in special issues of journals devoted to Dubliners. Although I have expanded and revised everything in this book, I nonetheless wish to thank presses and journals that printed earlier versions of some of the pieces for permission to revise and use them in these pages. The first printed version of the “Clay” essay appeared as an article in the March  issue of PMLA. Versions of my essay on “The Dead” were earlier printed in Modern Fiction Studies and in James Joyce, “The Dead”: Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism. I thank Johns Hopkins University Press and Bedford Books of St. Martin’s Press, respectively, for permission to reproduce this essay in revised form here. Other journals that have given permission to publish revised versions of essays previously appearing in their publications include Studies in Short Fiction (Summer ) (“Blind Streets and Seeing Houses: ‘Araby’ ’s Dim Glass Revisited”) and Novel (Fall ) (“Gambling with Gambles in ‘Two Gallants’ ”). Rodopi, the publisher of European Joyce Studies, has granted permission to reproduce my essays appearing in European Joyce Studies  () (“Narrative Bread Pudding: Joyce’s ‘The Boarding House’ ”), European Joyce Studies  () (“Masculinity Games in ‘After the Race’ ”), and European Joyce Studies  () (“Critical Judgment and Gender Prejudice in ‘A Mother’ ”). James Joyce Quarterly has also kindly granted permission to reprint an essay appearing in the Fall /Winter  issue (“Shocking the Reader in James Joyce’s ‘A Painful Case’ ”). And the following collections of essays have included versions of chapters in this book: Quare Joyce, edited by Joseph Valente (“A Walk on the Wilde(e) Side: The Doubled Reading of ‘An Encounter’ ”) and A Collideorscape of Joyce: Festschrift for Fritz Senn, edited by Ruth Frehner and Ursula Zeller (“Setting Critical Accounts Right: Tom Kernan, Usury, and Unjust Stewardship”). I thank University of Michigan Press and Lilliput Press of Dublin, respectively, for permission to reprint revised versions of these pieces. ...

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