Chrissie Van Mierlo - James Joyce and Catholicism: The Apostates Wake

James Joyce and Catholicism

Historicizing Modernism

Series Editors

Matthew Feldman, Professor of Contemporary History, Teesside University, UK Erik Tonning, Professor of British Literature and Culture, University of Bergen, Norway

Assistant Editor: David Tucker, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Chester, UK

Editorial Board

Professor Chris Ackerley, Department of English, University of Otago, New Zealand; Professor Ron Bush, St. Johns College, University of Oxford, UK; Dr Finn Fordham, Department of English, Royal Holloway, UK; Professor Steven Matthews, Department of English, University of Reading, UK; Dr Mark Nixon, Department of English, University of Reading, UK; Professor Shane Weller, Reader in Comparative Literature, University of Kent, UK; and Professor Janet Wilson, University of Northampton, UK.

Historicizing Modernism challenges traditional literary interpretations by taking an empirical approach to modernist writing: a direct response to new documentary sources made available over the last decade.

Informed by archival research, and working beyond the usual European/American avant-garde 190045 parameters, this series reassesses established readings of modernist writers by developing fresh views of intellectual contexts and working methods.

Series Titles

Arun Kolatkar and Literary Modernism in India, Laetitia Zecchini

British Literature and Classical Music, David Deutsch

Broadcasting in the Modernist Era, Matthew Feldman, Henry Mead, and Erik Tonning

Ezra Pounds Adams Cantos, David Ten Eyck

Ezra Pounds Eriugena, Mark Byron

Great War Modernisms and The New Age Magazine, Paul Jackson

John Kasper and Ezra Pound, Alec Marsh

Katherine Mansfield and Literary Modernism, edited by Janet Wilson, Gerri Kimber, and Susan Reid

Late Modernism and The English Intelligencer, Alex Latter

The Life and Work of Thomas MacGreevy, Susan Schreibman

Literary Impressionism, Rebecca Bowler

Modern Manuscripts, Dirk Van Hulle

Modernism at the Microphone, Melissa Dinsman

Reading Mina Loys Autobiographies, Sandeep Parmar

Reframing Yeats, Charles Ivan Armstrong

Samuel Beckett and Arnold Geulincx, David Tucker

Samuel Beckett and The Bible, Iain Bailey

Samuel Becketts German Diaries 19361937, Mark Nixon

Samuel Becketts More Pricks Than Kicks, John Pilling

T. E. Hulme and the Ideological Politics of Early Modernism, Henry Mead

Virginia Woolfs Late Cultural Criticism, Alice Wood

James Joyce and Catholicism

The Apostates Wake

Chrissie Van Mierlo

Bloomsbury Academic

An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Contents

First and foremost, I would like to thank my family and friends for their support through dark days and light.

During a decade spent immersed in Joyce studies, I have had the pleasure of meeting countless wonderful scholars and human beings, many of whom I am lucky enough to call my friends. Thank you to all, and especially to Scarlett Baron, Morris Beja, Matthew Creasy, Luca Crispi, Ronan Crowley, Katherine Ebury, Anne Fogarty, Finn Fordham, Brian Fox, Andrew Frayn, Philip Keel Geheber, Andrew Gibson, Cheryl Herr, Clare Hutton, Ellen Carol Jones, Terence Killeen, Alison Lacivita, Jim Le Blanc, Geert Lernout, Timothy Martin, Jonathan McCreedy, Bram Mertens, Erika Mihlycsa, Camilla Mount, Christin Mulligan, Anthony and Suzanne Ossa-Richardson, Vike Plock, Tamara Radak, Sam Slote, Dirk Van Hulle, Michelle Witen and Conor Wyer. Thanks will forever be due to the late Blanche Levinkind. To those whom I have omitted to mention here, both my thanks and apologies.

I am grateful to Fritz Senn and all at the Zrich James Joyce Foundation for the opportunity to spend two months with them in 2012. The research completed during my time at the foundation formed the basis of of this book. I am also grateful to the librarians in the Manuscripts and Rare Books reading rooms at the British Library for their kind assistance, and for their generosity in allowing access to Joyces manuscripts.

Extravagant thanks are due to Sarah Davison for her boundless enthusiasm and belief.

Finally, this work is dedicated to my husband, Wim, without whom it could not have been written.

The following abbreviations of standard texts are included parenthetically: