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Article: Schwarze, Tracey Teets. 2002. Joyce and the Victorians.(Book Review)
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- College Literature
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- March 22, 2003
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Gainesville: University Press of Florida. $55.00 hc. xii + 246pp.
Given its title, one might expect Tracey Schwarze's Joyce and the Victorians to delve into Joyce's anxiety of influence or examine his novels with those of Dickens, the Brontes, or Hardy. Schwarze addresses this, saying that it would be a "contrarian absurdity" (2002, 4) to examine Joyce "as the last Victorian" (4). Her approach, instead, follows a cultural studies or cultural history perspective, examining not so much Joyce the experimental stylist and modernist as Joyce the user and collector of artifacts from Victorian and Edwardian Ireland and Britain.
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