{"product_id":"consuming-joyce","title":"Consuming Joyce","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This book was crying out to be written.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Irish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Scandalously readable.\"\u003ci\u003e Literary Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames Joyce's relationship with his homeland was a complicated and often vexed one. The publication of his masterwork \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e - referred to by \u003ci\u003eThe Quarterly Review \u003c\/i\u003eas an \"Odyssey of the sewer\" - in 1922 was initially met with indifference and hostility within Ireland. This book tells the full story of the reception of Joyce and his best-known book in the country of his birth for the first time; a reception that evolved over the next hundred years, elevating Joyce from a writer reviled to one revered. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart reception study, part social history, this book uses the changing interpretations of \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e to explore the concurrent religious, social and political changes sweeping Ireland. From initially being a threat to the status quo, \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e became a way to market Ireland abroad and a manifesto for a better, more modern, open and tolerant, multi-ethnic country.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54223658549592,"sku":"9781350205826","price":28.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781350205826_9c23114c-fa87-4e60-8cf8-bad32a631b16.jpg?v=1777086917","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/consuming-joyce","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}