Birmingham, Kevin, author.
New York : The Penguin Press, 2014.
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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• An account of the dramatic writing of and fight to publish James Joyce’s Ulysses reveals how the now classic book was the subject of a landmark federal obscenity trial in 1933 that overturned key censorship laws.
• Nighttown — Nora Barnacle — The vortex — Trieste — Smithy of souls — Little modernisms — The Medici of Modernism — Zurich — Power and postage — The Woolfs — Brutal madness — Shakespeare and Company — Hell in New York — The Ghost of Comstock — Elijah is coming — The People of the State of New York v. Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap — Circe burning — The bible of the outcasts — The booklegger — The king’s chimney — The pharmacopeia — Glamour of the clandestine — Modern classics — Treponema — Search and seizure — The United States of America v. One Book Called Ulysses — The tables of the law.

Subjects:

• Joyce, James, 1882-1941. Ulysses.
• Joyce, James, 1882-1941. Ulysses — Criticism, Textual.
• Authors and publishers — History — 20th century.
• Law and literature — History — 20th century.
• Trials (Obscenity) — History — 20th century.

Requested by Cowgill, R.