Joyce's 'James Clarence Mangan' (1902): Annotated

Abstract

Abstract:This essay completes and, at times, corrects the information provided in their annotations by previous editors of the paper James Joyce read to the Literary and Historical society of University College Dublin on 1 February 1902. It unveils the quotations, or misquotations, from Mangan which Joyce inserts in his text without quotation marks. It traces the precise passages in the works of Mangan's editors and biographers which Joyce exploits without naming and with which he is not averse to taking some liberties. It also provides exact bibliographical details on secondary sources among which Joyce's vast literary culture allows him to roam. All in all, it shows that, behind its highly ornate, lyrical style, Joyce's essay on Mangan evinces a far from negligible amount of research.