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JJBN: MACCABE-2021
MacCabe, Colin. James Joyce: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford UP, 2021.
CONTENTS
List of illustrations
Abbreviations
1. A publication in pot-First World War Paris
2. Dubliners
3. A Portrait
4. Ulysses
5. Finnegans Wake
6. The Aunt Josephine Paradox
Further reading
Index
ABOUT THE BOOK
James Joyce is one of the greatest writers in English. His first book, A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man laid down the template for the Coming of Age novel, while his collection of short stories, Dubliners, is of perennial interest. His great modern epic, Ulysses, took the city of Dublin for its setting and all human life for its subject, and its publication in 1922 marked the beginning of the modern novel. Joyce's final work, Finnegans Wake is an endless experiment in narrative and language. But if Joyce is a great writer he is also the most difficult writer in English. Finnegans Wake is written in a freshly invented language, and Ulysses exhausts all the forms and styles of English. Even the apparently simple Dubliners has plots of endless complexity, while the structure of A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man is exceptionally intricate.
This Very Short Introduction explores the work of this most influential yet complex writer, and analyses how Joyce's difficulty grew out of his situation as an Irish writer unwilling to accept the traditions of his imperialist oppressor, and contemptuous of the cultural banality of the Gaelic revival. Joyce wanted to investigate and celebrate his own life, but this meant investigating and celebrating the drunks of Dublin's pubs and the prostitutes of Dublin's brothels. No subject was alien to him and he developed the naturalist project of recording all aspects of life with the symbolist project of finding significant correspondences in the most unlikely material. Throughout, Colin MacCabe interweaves Joyce's life and history with his books, and draws out their themes and connections.
Bloom's Bookcase
Thom's Dublin Post Office Directory, 1886.
O'Brien, William. When We Were Boys. London: Longs man, Green, and Co, 1890.
Doyle, Conan. The Stark Munro Letters. London: Longmans Green & Co, 1895.
Sandow, Eugene. Strength and How to Obtain it. London: Gale & Polden, 1897.
Thom's Dublin Post Office Directory, 1886.
JJBN: THOM-1886
Thom's Dublin Post Office Directory, 1886.
ABOOU THE BOOK
"This could be either of two publications: The post Office Directory and Calendar for 1886. . . printed by Alexander Thom; or the much more comprehensive Thom's Official Directory of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for 1886 comprising the 1886 Post Office Dublin City and County Directory." (Don Gifford, 588)
The Useful Ready Reckoner (brown cloth).
Shakespeare's Works (dark crimson morocco, goldtooled).
The Useful Ready Reckoner (brown cloth).
The Secret History of the Court of Charles II (red cloth, tooled binding).
JJBN: X-1792 (U 17: 1367)
The Secret History of the Court and Reign of Charles the Second. By A Member of His Privy Council. To which are added Introductory Sketches of the Preceding Period from the Accession of James I. With Notes and a Supplement, Continuing the Narrative in a Summary Manner to The Revolution By the Editor. Printed by T. Gillet, No 19. Bartholomew-Close, for J,BEW, No. 28, Patesnoter-Row, 1792.
🔗https://archive.org/details/secrethistoryco00mccogoog
The Child's Guide (blue cloth).
JJBN: The Child's Guide-1850;1878 (U 17: 1368)
"Titles that begin with this phrase are legion, among them, The Child's Guide to Devotion (London, 1850); The Child's Guide to Knowledge; being a collection of useful and familiar answers on everyday subjects; adapted for youngsters. By a Lady (London, 1878)." (Don Gifford, 588)
The Beauties of Killarney (wrappers).
When We Were Boys by William O'Brien M. P. (green cloth, slightly faded, envelope bookmark at p. 217).
JJBN:O'BRIEN-1890
O'Brien, William. When We Were Boys. London: Longs man, Green, and Co, 1890. 🔗https://archive.org/details/whenwewereboysa00obrgoog
CONTENTS
Chapter I. The Garrindinny Railway
Chapter II. St. Fergal's
Chapter III. Baptizing the Blacks
Chapter IV. Baron Drumshaughlin in the Peerage of Ireland
Chapter V. Saint Cecilia
Chapter VI. In asphodel-Land
Chapter VII. The Lord Harry
Chapter VIII. 'It Is the Revolution!'
Chapter IX. Harry Does Not Join the Ministry
Chapter X. The Wild Irish Girl
Chapter XI. In the Convent Garden
Chapter XII. Shergeant Sweeney's Shot
Chapter XIII. Les Jeunes Moustaches
Chapter XIV. Father Phil, Bow-Wow, & Co.
Chapter XV. Mabel's Mission to the Heathen
Chapter XVI. The American Captain
Chapter XVII. Monsignor McGrudder's Anathema
Chapter XVIII. Mr. Hans Harman Dissipates
Chapter XIX. L'Ange Aux Grands Yeux Blues, Et―L'Ange Aux Grandes Ailes Noires
Chapter XX. Mabel Opens A Menagerie
Chapter XXI. Lotos-Rater Versus Ironmaker
Chapter XXII. In Long Gougaun Babra
Chapter XXIII. What the Echoes Heard
Chapter XXIV. Literature's 'First Kiss'
Chapter XXV. Two Young Men
Chapter XXVI. Harmaniana
Chapter XXVII. Lord Drumshaughlin Makes A Resolution
Chapter XXVIII. A Figure in the Dark
Chapter XXXIX. Quish Goes Home
Chapter XXX. Lord Drumshaughlin's Blood Up
Chapter XXXII. A Lynch-Pin ut of the Mill-Wheel
Chapter XXXIII. 'Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys are Marching!'
Chapter XXXIV. The American Ship
Chapter XXXV. Rejoining Quish
Chapter XXXVI. Father Phil Flares Up
Chapter XXXVII. The Ironmaster Grows Inquisitive
Chapter XXXVIII. The Election
Chapter XXXIX. Mr. Hans Harman Takes His Leave
Chapter XL. Is the Bansher to Have Her Bridegroom
Thoughts from Spinoza (maroon leather).
The Story of the Heavens by Sir Robert Ball (blue cloth).
JJBN: BALL-1900 (U 8: 110; 10: 525-528; 17:1373)
Ball, Robert. The Story of the Heavens. London, Paris, New York & Melbourne: Cassel; and Company, 1900. 🔗https://archive.org/details/storyofheavens00balliala
CONTENTS
Introduction
I. The Astronomical’s Observatory
II. The Sun
III. The Moon
IV. The Solar System
V. The Law of Gravitation
VI. The Planet of Romance
VII. Mercury
VIII. Venus
IX. The Earth
X. Mars
XI. The Minor Planets
XII. Jupiter
XIII. Saturn
XIV. Uranus
XV. Neptune
XVI. Comets
XVII. Shooting Stars
XVIII. The Starry Heavens
XIX. The Distant Suns
XX. Double Stars
XXI. The Distances of the Stars
XXII. Star Cluster and Nebulae
XXIII. The Physical Nature of the Stars
XXIV. The Precession and Nutation of the Earth’s Axis
XXV. The Aberration of Light
XXVI. The Astronomical Significance of Heat
XXVII. The Tides
Appendix
ABOUT THE BOOK
"sir Robert Ball's―(1840-1913), astronomer royal and director of the observatory at Cambridge, England. Ball was born and educated in Dublin; he was a popular lecturer and the author of many book on astronomy. The book that Bloom recalls is The Story of the Heavens (1885); it is among the books in his library. (17.1373)" (Don Gifford, 160)
See also U 10: 525-28: "He's dead nuts on sales, M'Coy said. I was with him one day and he bought a book from an old one in Liffey street for two bob. There were fine plates in it worth double the money, the stars and the moon and comets with long tails. Astronomy it was about."
Ellis's Three Trips to Madagascar (brown cloth, title obliterated).
The Stark-Munro Letters by A. Conan Doyle, property of the City of Dublin Public Library, 106 Capel street, lent 21 May (Whitsun Eve) 1904, due 4 June 1904, 13 days overdue (black cloth binding, bearing white letternumber ticket).
The Stark-Munro Letters by A. Conan Doyle, property of the City of Dublin Public Library, 106 Capel street, lent 21 May (Whitsun Eve) 1904, due 4 June 1904, 13 days overdue (black cloth binding, bearing white letternumber ticket).
JJBN: DOYLE-1895.
Doyle, Conan. The Stark Munro Letters. London: Longmans Green & Co, 1895. 🔗http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/290
CONTENTS
I. HOME. 30th March, 1881.
II. HOME, 10th April, 1881.
III. HOME, 15th October, 1881.
IV. HOME, 1st December, 1881.
V. MERTON ON THE MOORS, 5th March, 1882.
VI. THE PARADE, BRADFIELD, 7th March, 1882.
VII. THE PARADE, BRADFIELD, 9th March, 1882.
VIII. THE PARADE, BRADFIELD, 6th April, 1882.
IX. THE PARADE, BRADFIELD, 23rd April, 1882.
X. CADOGAN TERRACE, BIRCHESPOOL, 21st May, 1882.
XI. OAKLEY VILLAS, BIRCHESPOOL, 29th May, 1882.
XII. OAKLEY VILLAS, BIRCHESPOOL, 5th June, 1882.
XIII. OAKLEY VILLAS, BIRCHESPOOL, 12th June, 1882.
XIV. OAKLEY VILLAS, BIRCHESPOOL, 15th January, 1883.
XV. OAKLEY VILLAS, BIRCHESPOOL, 3rd August, 1883.
XVI. OAKLEY VILLAS, BIRCHESPOOL, 4th November, 1884.
ABOUT THE BOOK
"An epistolary novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930). The Stark Munro Letters; being a series of sixteen letters written by J. Stark Munro, M. B. (Bachelor of Medicine), to his friend and former fellow-student Herbert Swanborough, of Lowel, Massachusetts, during the years 1881-1884 (New York, 1895). The Letters read as thinly disguised random lectures on topics that range from religion and politics to poverty and the practice of medicine. Central is Stark Munro's belief in the teleological presence of "the great Central Mind" (p.47), "the all-wise Engineer" )(p.113) who presides over the evolution of the brain and man's spiritual progress (p.50) and assures "the ultimate perfection of the race" (p.112)." (Don Gifford, 588)
Voyages in China by "Viator" (recovered with brown paper, red ink title).
Philosophy of the Talmud (sewn pamphlet).
Lockhart's Life of Napoleon (cover wanting, marginal annotations, minimising victories, aggrandising defeats of the protagonist).
Soll und Haben by Gustav Freytag (black boards, Gothic characters, cigarette coupon bookmark at p. 24).
Hozier's History of the Russo-Turkish War (brown cloth, a volumes, with gummed label, Garrison Library, on verso of cover).
JJBN: HOZIER-1877. (U 17: 1385)
: Horzier, Henry Montague. The Russo-Turkish War: including and an account of the rise and decline of the Ottoman power, and the history of the Eastern Question. 2 Vols. London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dublin: William Mackenzie, 1877, 1879.
Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland by William Allingham (second edition, green cloth, gilt trefoil design, previous owner's name on recto of flyleaf erased).
JJBN: ALLINGHAM-1869.
Allingham, William. Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland; or The New Landlord. London: Macmillan and Co, 1869.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
An Irish landscape in Autumn—The young landlord, Laurence Bloomfield—His education and early phases of opinion on Irish questions—Travelling—London—Visits his estate in Ireland—His character—Bides to a dinner at his uncle's house, Sir Ulick Harvey's—Reflections—He resolves to pass the winter in Egypt 4
CHAPTER II.
A disturbed county—The principal landowners in Bloomfleld's neighbourhood described—Sir Ulick, Lord Crashton, Finlay, Dysart, Isaac Brown, the O'Hara.
CHAPTER III.
A dinner-party at Sir Ulick's—The guests and their conversation —the Honourable George, Duff, Nassau Blunderbore, Pigot, Rev. Mr. Boyd, and others—The threatening letter—Landed property, its rights and its duties—Tea—The ladies, the curate —Laurence rides home, meditative and undecided.
CHAPTER IV.
An Irish peasant-family described—Jack Doran, his wife, son, •nd daughter—Their history, struggles, and fears—Their cottage and bit of ground—Visit from Sir Ulick's bailiff— Fireside-talk—Neal Doran goes out in the dusk.”
CHAPTER V.
Hamlet of Ballytullagh—Its aspect and ways of life—Humble but not necessarily miserable—Out of favour with Agent Pigot —Bad blood—Ribbonism and landlordism—The farmers—The priesthood—Father Adam and his curate—A wretched hovel described—Sunday—Going to mass—The sermon.
CHAPTER VI.
Young Neal Doran—His patriotic visions—Goes a-fishing on Lough Braccan, watches the sunset from a ruined castle, and muses on Irish history—Is met and sworn-in by two memliers of the Ribbon Lodge.
CHAPTER VII.
Eviction of the Ballytullagh people described—Dr. Larmour, his view of Irish affairs—A raffle and dance.
CHAPTER VIII.
A Ribbon Lodge—A wake and funeraL
CHAPTER IX.
The Harvest Fair—Neal Doran'e misery—His arrest—The Rent-Office.
CHAPTER X. Old Jack Doran at the rent-office—Bloomfield and Pigot— Laurence takes the reins—The murder.
CHAPTER XI.
Laurence Bloomfield and his wife—How they manage people and thing*—Spring landscape—A children's feast
CHAPTER XII.
Midsummer—A boating party—Irish questions discussed— Bonfire-night—Bloomfield's estate in its new condition— Mountain view—Aims and attainments—Love.”
The Hidden Life of Christ (black boards).
In the Track of the Sun (yellow cloth, titlepage missing, recurrent title intestation).
JJBN: THOMPSON-1893〔U 4: 99-100; 17: 1395-96〕
Thompson, Frederick Diodati. In the Track of the Sun: Reading from the Diary of A Globe Trotter. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1893.
🔗https://archive.org/details/intrackofsunread00thom
CONTENTS
Chapter 1 New York to Tacoma
Chapter 2 Victoria to Yokohama
Chapter 3 In Japan
Chapter 4 Farewell to Japan
Chapter 5 Visit to China
Chapter 6 Through the Straits to Ceylon
Chapter 7 In Hindostan
Chapter 8 Up the Ganges
Chapter 9 Agra and Delhi
Chapter 10 In Western India and Egypt
Chapter 11 On the Nile
Chapter 12 Visit to Palestine
Chapter 13 Home through Europe
Chapter 14 Familiar Places Revisited
ABOUT THE BOOK
"Thomson traveled west from New York (October 1891) and returned via England (May 1892). Thompson concentrates on his travels in the Orient and the Near Eaast, as Bloom's reverie suggests." (Don Gifford, 72)
Sandow, Eugene. Strength and How to Obtain it. London: Gale & Polden, 1897.
Physical Strength and How to Obtain It by Eugen Sandow (red cloth).
JJBN: SANDOW-1897: Sandow, Eugene. Strength and How to Obtain it. London: Gale & Polden, 1897. 🔗http://evilcyber.com/downloads/Strength%20and%20How%20to%20Obtain%20It%20-%20Eugen%20Sandow.pdf
CONTENTS
Introduction
PART I. MY SYSTEM OF PHYSICAL CULTURE.
CHAPTER I. HOW TO EXERCISE.
CHAPTER II. THE SECRET OF THE COLD BATH.
CHAPTER III. THE TABLES OF AGES.
CHAPTER IV. PRIZES FOR PUPILS.
CHAPTER V. SANDOW'S CHART OF MEASUREMENTS.
CHAPTER VI. SANDOW'S SCHOOL OF PHYSICAL CULTURE.
CHAPTER VII. THE SANDOW-WHITELY IMPROVED EXERCISER.
SUPPLEMENT SANDOW'S COMBINED DEVELOPER.
CHAPTER VIII. HEAVY WEIGHTLIFTING.
CHAPTER IX. NUTRITIVE QUALITIES OF FOODS.
LETTERS FROM PUPILS.
PART II. INCIDENTS OF MY PROFESSIONAL CAREER.
CHAPTER I. MY CHILDHOOD AND BOYHOOD.
CHAPTER II. HOW I CAME TO LONDON AND DEFEATED SAMSON.
CHAPTER III. I MEET GOLIATH.
CHAPTER IV. A PRESENTATION UNDER CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES.
CHAPTER V. THE LIVING WEIGHTS.
CHAPTER VI. ON THE “ELBE”: BOUND FOR NEW YORK.
CHAPTER VII. MY FIRST HOUR IN AMERICA.
CHAPTER VIII. INCIDENTS OF THE AMERICAN TOUR.
CHAPTER IX. MY LION FIGHT IN SAN FRANCISCO.
CHAPTER X. FURTHER INCIDENTS OF THE TOUR.
CHAPTER XI. MY DOG SULTAN. END OF THE TOUR.
CHAPTER XII. MY PERFORMANCE AT THE PRESENT TIME.
CHAPTER XIII. MY MEASUREMENTS.
APPENDIX I. LIGHT WEIGHT EXERCISES.
APPENDIX II. EUGEN SANDOW'S MOST IMPORTANT BODYBUILDING LESSON.
Short but yet Plain Elements of Geometry [...].
PARDIES-1702. (U 17: 1398-1402)
Pardies, Ignace Gaston. Short but yet Plain Elements of Geometry. London : J. Matthews, for R. Knaplock, and D. Midwinter and T. Leigh, 1702.
🔗https://archive.org/details/shortbutyetplai00harrgoog
ABOUT THE BOOK
"This is apparently copied from an actual title page, since the British museum catalogue does list the book (though not this particular edition) Short but yet Plain Elements of Geometry and Plain Trigonometry, and one Charles Cox was M. P. for Southwark in 1711." (Don Gifford, 589)
Aristotle's Masterpiece (1846)
JJBN: X-1846 (U 10. 586-87)
Aristotles's Masterpiece. New York: n.d., 1846.
🔗https://archive.org/details/8709661.nlm.nih.gov
CONTENTS
Introduction
Book I. Aristotle's Masterpiece.
Chapter I. Of Marriage, and at what Age young Men and Virgins are capable of it ; and why so much desire it. Also, how long Men and Women arc capable of having Children.
Chapter II. How to get a Male or Female Child; and of the Embryo,and perfect Birth; and the fitted Time for Copulation.
Chapter III. The Reason why Children are like their Parents, and that the Mother's Imagination contributes thereto; and whether the Man or Woman is the cause of the Male or Female Child.
Chapter IV. That Man's Soul is not propagated by the Parents, but is infused, by its Creator ; and can neither die nor corrupt. At what time it is infused. Of its immortality, and Certainty ofits Resurrection.
Chapter V. Of Monsters and monstrous Births; and the several Reasons thereof, according to the opinion of the Ancients. Also, whether Monsters are endowed with reasonable Souls ; and whether Devils can engender ; is here briefly discussed.
Chapter IV. Of the happy State of Matrimony, as it is appointed by God; the true Felicity that redounds thereby to either Sex ; and to what end it is ordained.
Chapter VII. Qf Errors in Marriage ; Wliy they are ; and the Prejudices of them.
Chapter XIII. The Opinion of the Learned concerning Children conceived and horn within Seven Months ; with Arguments upon the Subject to prevent Suspicion of Incontinency, and bitter Contests on that Account. To which are added, Rules to know the Disposition of Man's Body by the Genital Parts.
Chapter IX. Of the Green-sickness in Virgins, with its Causes, Signs, and Cures ; together with the chief Occasion of Barrenness in Women, and the Means to remove the Cause, and render
them fruitful.
Chapter X. Virginity, what it is, in what it consists, and how vitiated; together with the Opinion of the Learned about the Mutation of the Sex in the Womb, during the Operation of Nature in
forming the Body.
Chapter XI. Directions and Cautions for Midwives : and first, how a Midwife ought to be qualified.
Chapter XII. Further Directions for Midwives, teaching them what they ought to do, and what to avoid.
Chapter XIII. Of the Genitals of Women, externa and infernal, to the Vessels of the Womb.
Chapter XIV. A Description of the Woman's Fabric, the Preparing Vessels and Testicles in Women. As also of the Difference and Ejaculatory Vessels.
Chapter XV. A Description of the Use and Action, of several Parts in Women, appointed in Generation.
Chapter XVI. Of the Organs of Generation in Man.
Chapter XVII. A word of Advice to both Sexes, being several Directions respecting the Act of Copulation.
BOOK II. A PRIVATE LOOKING-GLASS FOR THE FEMALE SEX: TREATING OF SEVERAL MALADIES INCIDENT TO THE WOMB, WITH PROPER REMEDIES FOR THE CURE OF EACH.
Chapter I. Of the Womb in general.
Chapter II. Of the Retention of the Courses
Chapter III. Of the Overflowing of the Courses.
Chapter IV. Of the Weeping of the Womb.
Chapter V. Of the False Courses, or Whites.
Chapter VI. Of the Suffocation of the Mother.
Chapter VII. Of the. descending or falling of the Mother.
Chapter VIII. Of the Inflammation of the Womb.
Chapter IX. Of the Schirrosity, or Hardness of the Womb.
Chapter X. Of the Dropsy of the Womb.
Chapter XI. Of Moles and False Conceptions.
Chapter XII. Of Conception, and how a Woman may know whether she hath conceived or not, and whether a Male or a Female
Chapter XIII. Of Untimely Births.
Chapter XIV. Directions for Breeding Women.
Chapter XV. Directions to be observed by Women at the time of their falling in Labour, in order to their safe Delivery, with Directions for Midwives.
Chapter XVI. In Case of Extremity, what ought to be observed ; especially to Women, who, in their Travail, are attended with a Flux of Blood, Convulsions and Fits of the Mind.
Chapter XVII. How Childbearing Women ought to be ordered after Delivery.
Chapter XVIII. How to expel the Cholic from Women in Childbirth.

THE FAMILY PHYSICIAN : BEING CHOICE AND APPROVED REMEDIES FOR SEVERAL DISTEMPERS INCIDENTAL TO HUMAN BODIES