Elmann's Joyce The Biography of a Masterpiece and its maker

Leader, Zachary

ISBN 10: 0674248392 / ISBN 13: 9780674248397

Published by The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge Massachusetts & London, 2025

About this Item

A fine new copy of the first Printing. The story of the most acclaimed literary biography of the twentieth century?an ingeniously plotted, behind-the-scenes account of how the literary critic and scholar Richard Ellmann shaped James Joyce?s reputation. In the process, he takes readers on a rare tour through midcentury publishing houses in New York and London, as well as the corridors and classrooms of elite universities, from Yale to Oxford. 449pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Elmann's Joyce The Biography of a Masterpiece and its maker
• Publisher: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge Massachusetts & London
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674248392
• ISBN 13: 9780674248397
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biographies and Family Histories
  • Essays, Studies and Literary Criticisms
  • Bibliography

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Synopsis

Richard Ellmann’s James Joyce, published in 1959, has been called “the greatest literary biography of the twentieth century.” Ellmann’s Joyce provides the biography of the biography—an eye-opening account of how Ellmann’s book came to be, the intrigue surrounding it, and its enduring impact on the study and making of literary lives.

About the Author

Zachary Leader is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Roehampton in London and author of The Life of Kingsley Amis and the two-volume Life of Saul Bellow, alongside multiple works of criticism and scholarship. He is General Editor of The Oxford History of Life-Writing and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.