Claire Bracken

Bio

Claire Bracken is a Professor in the English Department at Union College, New York, where she teaches courses on Irish and postcolonial literatures. Her book, Irish Feminist Futures was published by Routledge in 2016 as part of the Transformations series. She has recently published journal articles and book chapters on Irish women’s drama, Irish feminist criticism, and W.B. Yeats.

Contributions

“Read a Dirty Book”: James Joyce, Samuel Steward, and the Orientations of Literary Rebellion

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In March of 2020, right before the COVID-19 lockdown, we—then-undergraduate Marissa Stinson and her Rider University professor Laurel Harris—visited the Special Collections at Princeton University’s Firestone Library to sift through boxes of Sylvia Beach’s papers . Rider is a fifteen-minute car ride down Route 206 from Beach’s hometown of Princeton. The accessibility of Beach’s and the Shakespeare and Company’s archives offered us a local connection to James Joyce’s iconic Irish modernist novel Ulysses (1922). Unsure of what we would find, we wound up spending the day particularly focused on Box 49, which includes a series of letters from around the world sent to Joyce in care of Beach in the 1920s and 1930s.

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