James Joyce and Photography

About the Author Georgina Binnie-Wright is an Independent Scholar specialising in modernism and visual culture. She received her PhD from the University of Leeds.David Tucker is Associate Lecturer at The American College of Greece, Athens. He is the editorof British Social Realism in the Arts since 1940 (2011).Erik Tonning is Professor of British Literature and Culture at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is co-editor of the Modernist Archives series and the Historicizing Modernism series, both published by Bloomsbury. He is the author of Samuel Beckett's Abstract Drama and Modernism and Christianity, as well as the editor of a number of volumes on modernism.Matthew Feldman is Professorial Teaching Fellow, Norwegian Study Centre, University of York, UK. Product Description James Joyce and Photography is the first book to explore in-depth James Joyce's personal and professional engagement with photography. Photographs, photographic devices and photographically-inspired techniques appear throughout Joyce's work, from his narrator's furtive proto-photographic framing in Silhouettes (c. 1897), to the aggressively-minded 'Tulloch-Turnbull girl with her coldblood kodak' in Finnegans Wake (1939).Through an exploration of Joyce's manuscripts and photographic and newspaper archival material, as well as the full range of his major works, this book sheds new light on his sustained interest in this visual medium. This project takes Joyce's intention in Dubliners (1914) to 'betray the soul of that hemiplegia or paralysis which many consider a city' as key to his interaction with photography, which in his literature occupies a dual position between stasis and innovation. Review “This lucid and compelling new study is a game-changer, not just in the emerging field of research into Joyce and photography, but in its creative engagement with modern visual media in general. It is an invaluable foundation for future scholarship.” ―Keith Williams, Reader in English, University of Dundee, UK“Like a skilled flash photographer, Binnie-Wright provides illuminating interpretations of familiar and unfamiliar subjects. Flickering seamlessly between meticulous historical research and deft textual analysis, this book is vital reading for Joyceans and anyone interested in literary modernism's relationship with visual technologies.” ―Cleo Hanaway-Oakley, Lecturer in Liberal Arts and English, University of Bristol, UK