Joyce and the G-Men

J. Edgar Hoover's Manipulation of Modernism
2004
ISBN: 978-0-312-23553-6
Verlag: Springer Nature B.V.

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 404 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Culleton, Claire A.

Culleton, C.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Joyce and the G-Men: J. Edgar Hoover's Manipulation of Modernism Modern Literature and Degenerist Anxieties 'Processed by Democracy': J. Edgar Hoover in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Hoover's Immigration Battlegrounds: Alien Radicals, Intellectuals, and Provocateurs in the Labour Movement 'Trade Papers for Revolutionaries': Modernism's Newspapers and Little Magazines Modernism, Obscenity, and Social Purity Discourse Epilogue Works Cited

Über Autor(innen)

CLAIRE A. CULLETON is Professor and Graduate Studies Coordinator in the Department of English at Kent State University, USA.