LOUKOPOULOU Eleni, Up to Maughty London: Joyce’s Cultural Capital in the Imperial Metropolis

‘Trieste-Zurich-Paris, 1914-1921’. ‘Paris, 1922-1939’. These famous dates and places with which Ulysses and Finnegans Wake respectively close tell a long story, and suggest the extent to which the composition of those two books is embedded in the social, historical and cultural life of the cities in which Joyce wrote them. The crucial role played by Paris’s literary movers and shakers in relation to the writing and, more importantly, to the publication of Ulysses is now amply documented, as i...