Joyce and the G-Men: J. Edgar Hoover’s Manipulation of Modernism

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. 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.

• | Author: C. Culleton
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Jul 19, 2004
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781349386420
• | ISBN-10: 1349386421