The Joyce Archive at Reading: Catalogue and Contexts
Steven Matthews · Mark Nixon · Xander Ryan
Nov 2026 · Bloomsbury Publishing
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368
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A fully contextualised catalogue of one of the most significant archival Joyce acquisitions of recent times.
When Stephen James Joyce died on 23 January 2020, he and his wife Solange bequeathed an archival collection and library to the University of Reading, comprising a wealth of documents, photographs and rare books relating to James Joyce and his literary work. Some of this material has not been read by anyone outside the family, or was only shown to select scholars in the 1950s and 1960s and thereafter was kept private.
This book contains a detailed catalogue of the Solange and Stephen James Joyce Collection, in order to present the collection's contents in an accessible fashion for public readers and academic researchers. An introduction and headnotes draw on the rich history of Joyce scholarship, together with contextual essays from three well-known Joyce scholars. In combination, this material shows how the groundbreaking new collection has the potential to revise and reinvigorate understandings of Joyce and modernist literature for decades to come.
When Stephen James Joyce died on 23 January 2020, he and his wife Solange bequeathed an archival collection and library to the University of Reading, comprising a wealth of documents, photographs and rare books relating to James Joyce and his literary work. Some of this material has not been read by anyone outside the family, or was only shown to select scholars in the 1950s and 1960s and thereafter was kept private.
This book contains a detailed catalogue of the Solange and Stephen James Joyce Collection, in order to present the collection's contents in an accessible fashion for public readers and academic researchers. An introduction and headnotes draw on the rich history of Joyce scholarship, together with contextual essays from three well-known Joyce scholars. In combination, this material shows how the groundbreaking new collection has the potential to revise and reinvigorate understandings of Joyce and modernist literature for decades to come.
A fully contextualised catalogue of one of the most significant archival Joyce acquisitions of recent times.
When Stephen James Joyce died on 23 January 2020, he and his wife Solange bequeathed an archival collection and library to the University of Reading, comprising a wealth of documents, pho...
About the author
Mark Nixon is Professor of Modern Literature and Beckett Studies, and Director of the Beckett International Foundation, at the University of Reading, UK.
Steven Matthews is Emeritus Professor of Modernist Studies and Co-Director of the Samuel Beckett Research Centre at the University of Reading, UK
Xander Ryan is an Associate Lecturer at the University of Reading, UK, and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Steven Matthews is Emeritus Professor of Modernist Studies and Co-Director of the Samuel Beckett Research Centre at the University of Reading, UK
Xander Ryan is an Associate Lecturer at the University of Reading, UK, and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Mark Nixon is Professor of Modern Literature and Beckett Studies, and Director of the Beckett International Foundation, at the University of Reading, UK.
Steven Matthews is Emeritus Professor of Modernist Studies and Co-Director of the Samuel Beckett Research Centre at the University of Reading,...
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