Dubliners

VINCENT J. CHENG Shirley Sutton Thomas Professor of English at the University of Utah, USA KEVIN DUTTMAR Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA LUKE GIBBONS Professor of English and concurrent Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre, at the University of Notre Dame, USA SUZETTE HENKE Thurston B. Morton, Sr Professor of Literary Studies at the University of Louisville, USA R. BRANDON KERSHNER Alumni Professor of English at the University of Florida, USA MARGOT NORRIS Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, USA JEAN-MICHEL RABATE Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, USA ROBERT SPOO Former editor of the James Joyce Quarterly at the University of Tulsa, USA THOMAS F. STALEY Professor of English and Director of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin, USA TREVOR L. WILLIAMS Professor of English at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada

Perplexing and innovative in technique, Joyce wanted Dubliners to be a 'chapter in the moral history of my country'.

This New Casebook brings together a range of different critical interpretations of Dubliners that demonstrate the complexity and fascination of Joyce's 'moral history'.James Joyce's Dubliners is one of the most studied collections of short stories in the world. Perplexing and innovative in technique, Joyce wanted Dubliners to be a 'chapter in the moral history of my country'.

This New Casebook brings together a range of different critical interpretations of Dubliners that demonstrate the complexity and fascination of Joyce's 'moral history'. It includes a variety of essays by a number of influential Joyce scholars and shows how contemporary literary theory has opened up the stories in exciting and revealing new ways. The essays show how Joyce interrogates the key issues of Irish history, gender relations, and the nature of literary interpretation itself, thereby encouraging the reader to return to Dubliners with a new set of questions to explore.