The Ulysses Trials: Bibliography & Links

Books

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Hassett, Joseph M.  The Ulysses Trials: Beauty and Truth Meet Law (Lilliput Press, 2016).

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Birmingham, Kevin.  The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses (Penguin Press, 2014).

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The United States of America v. One Book Entitled Ulysses by James Joyce: Documents and Commentary : a 50-year Retrospective  (Moscato, Michael and LeBlanc, Leslie, editors. Introduction by Richard Ellman)(1984)

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Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases (Simon and Schuster, 2020)(edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman)(includes essay on the Ulysses obscenity fight)

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Segall, Jeffrey.  Joyce in America: Cultural Politics and the Trials of Ulysses (Univ. of California Press, 1993).

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Hardiman, Adrian. Joyce in Court: James Joyce and the Law (Head of Zeus, 2018)(book about Joyce's obsession with the legal system in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake). 

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Joyce, James. Ulysses (Random House First Edition, 1934).

Articles

Edmund Wilson, "James Joyce (The New Republic, Dec. 18, 1929)

Morris Ernst, "Reflections on the Ulysses Trial" (James Joyce Quarterly, Vol. 3, No. 1)(1965)

Links

Little Review (January to March, 1921): Ulysses in Court (pdf)(Brown University scan)

Chabon, Michael.  "Ulysses on Trial" (The New York Review of Books, Sept. 26, 2019).

Project Gutenberg. "The Project Gutenberg EBook of Ulysses, by James Joyce" (full text of  novel) 

Wikipedia. "United States v. One Book Called Ulysses"

Wikipedia. "Obscenity Trial of Ulysses in the Little Review"

Wikipedia. "Ulysses (novel)"

 

 


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