James Joyce and Censorship: The Trials of Ulysses

"Mr. Vanderham's attempt to connect censorship to literary history does in fact fill in some blanks in the larger story of 'Ulysses,' but at the expense of Joyce's literary achievement. Surely the modernist concern to represent interior consciousness has deeper roots than the evasion of censorship, and this is confirmed by many of Joyce's equally difficult predecessors and contemporaries who had no trouble with censors--Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner....After reading Mr. Vanderham's conclusion, where he makes a plea for recognizing that literature does have consequences, one is left thinking that he is tilting at windmills."Paul Vanderham is the author of 'James Joyce and Censorship: The Trials of Ulysses', published 1997 under ISBN 9780814787908 and ISBN 0814787908.