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Joyce and the G-Men: J. Edgar Hoover’s Manipulation of Modernism

By Claire A. Culleton (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Year
2004
ISBN
978-1-349-38642-0, 978-1-4039-7349-8
DOI
10.1057/9781403973498
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1823993 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
VIII, 232\234
Time added
2017-06-25 01:07:36
British and Irish Literature;Twentieth-Century Lit

Description

Several years ago on a whim, Culleton requested James Joyce's FBI file. Hoover had Joyce under surveillance as a suspected Communist, and the chain of cross-references that Culleton followed from Joyce's file lead her to obscenity trials and, less obviously, to a plot to assassinate Irish labour leader James Larkin. Hoover devoted a great deal of energy to keeping watch on intellectuals and considered literature to be dangerous on a number of levels. Joyce and the G-Men explores how these linkages are indicative of the culture of the FBI under Hoover, and the resurgence of American anti-intellectualism.

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