James Joyce, Sexuality and Social Purity

'… both fascinating and titillating … deft, well-researched, and fascinating … a rollicking good journey … a series of quite striking intertextual engagements … Even readers without a particular investment in Joyce and his works will find this book useful … often masterful and always witty engagement with Joyce's works … it will make a welcome addition to the libraries of Joyceans and non-Joyceans alike … this is a genuine rarity among critical books: a smart, concise, and engaging text that treats sexuality and scandal with just the right mix of scholarly rigor, native intelligence, and good humour.' Modernism/Modernity
'Katherine Mullin's … book will make any voyeuristic reader of history despair that she has had to wait so long for that pleasure … A concise and accessible text presenting a compelling argument, careful close readings, and equally compelling primary source material, Mullin's work is a rare scholarly pleasure.' Irish Studies Review
'Part and parcel of Mullin's study is a rich documentation of the social purity movement's cultural history …a pleasure to read … represents something rare in Joyce criticism … [and] discovering a neglected strand of meaning and demonstrating how this is 'woven into the fabric of the fiction' … the study offers a rich body of cultural information based on enormously extensive research on the sexual discourses of the time in general and the history of the purity movement in particular … proof of how fruitful in many ways a cultural studies approach to literature can be.' Anglia. Zeitschrift fuer Englische Philologie