Suspicious Readings of Joyce's "Dubliners"

Contents

Contents List of Abbreviations ix Introduction   The Gnomon of the Book: “The Sisters”   A Walk on the Wild(e) Side: “An Encounter”   Blind Streets and Seeing Houses: “Araby”   The Perils of “Eveline”   Masculinity Games in “After the Race”   Gambling with Gambles in “Two Gallants”   Narrative Bread Pudding: “The Boarding House”   Men Under a Cloud in “A Little Cloud”   Farrington, the Scrivener, Revisited: “Counterparts”   Narration Under the Blindfold in “Clay”   Shocking the Reader in “A Painful Case”   Genres in Dispute: “Ivy Day in the Committee Room”   Critical Judgment and Gender Prejudice in “A Mother”   Setting Critical Accounts Aright in “Grace”   The Politics of Gender and Art in “The Dead”  Notes  Works Cited  Index  Acknowledgments  viii Contents ...