Joyce, Rossetti, Dante. The ‘Pre-Raphaelite’ edition of "New Life" in James Joyce's library and imagination
Abstract
Thanks to the inventory of Joyce’s personal library (Ellmann, 1977; Power 2018), it is known to us that his edition of the Vita Nuova is a prestigious reprint (dated 1911) of Dante’s “little book”, illustrated with paintings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, first published in Italy in 1902 by Roux and Viarengo. Joyce bought his copy in Trieste, second-hand, sometime between 1912 and 1915. This paper investigates the influence of the so-called “Pre-Raphaelite” edition of Dante’s libello on Joyce’s imaginary through an analysis of the complex figure of Gerty, the Nausicaa whom Bloom meets on Sandymount beach.
Keywords
Dante Alighieri, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, James Joyce, New Life, UlyssesReferences
Alighieri, D. (2015). Vita Nuova. Rime (a cura di D. Pirovano e M. Grimaldi. Introduzione di E. Malato). Roma: Salerno Editrice.
Boldrini, L. (2001). Joyce, Dante, and the Poetics of Literary Relations. Language and Meaning in Finnegans Wake. Cambridge; New York; Port Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.
Camilletti, F. (2005). Beatrice nell’inferno di Londra. Saggio su Dante Gabriel Rossetti Lavis: La Finestra.
Camilletti, F. (2019). The Portrait of Beatrice: Dante, D. G. Rossetti, and the Imaginary Lady. Notre Dame (IND): University of Notre Dame Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.21995797
Cummins, M. (1854). The Lamplighter. Boston: John P. Jewett.
Devlin, K. (1985). The Romance Heroine Exposed: “Nausicaa” and The Lamplighter. James Joyce Quarterly, 22 (4), 383-396.
Eliot, T. S. (1959). Selected Essays. New York: Harcourt.
Ellmann, R. (1982) James Joyce. The first revision of the 1959 Classic. New York; Oxford; Toronto: Oxford University Press.
Ellmann, R. (1977). Joyce’s Library in 1920. In Id., The Consciousness of Joyce (pp. 97-134). New York: Oxford University Press.
Henke, S. (1982). Gerty MacDowell: Joyce’s Sentimental Heroine. In S. Henke & E. Unkeless (Edd.) Women in Joyce (pp. 134-149). Urbana; Chicago; Londra: University of Illinois Press.
Henke, S. (2004-2005). Joyce’s Naughty Nausicaa: Gerty MacDowell Refashioned. Papers on Joyce 10/11, 85-103.
Hornbeck, C. (2009). Greekly Imperfect: The Homeric Origins of Joyce’s “Nausicaa”. Joyce Studies Annual, 89-108. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781531511463-005
Hornbeck, C. (2000). A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (a cura di J. Johnson). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hornbeck, C. (1963) Stephen Hero (introduzione di T. Spencer.) New York: New Directions.
Joyce, J. (2021). Ulysses (a cura di E.Terrinoni). Firenze; Milano: Giunti-Bompiani.
Joyce, J. (1986). Ulysses. (a cura di H. W. Gabler, with W. Steppe and C. Melchior. Postfazione di M. Groden). New York: Vintage
Loss, A. K. (1973). The Pre-Raphaelite Woman, the Symbolist “Femme-Enfant2, and the Girl with Long Flowing Hair in the Eearlier Work of Joyce. Journal of Modern Literature, 3.1, 3-23.
Mahaffey, V (1988). Reauthorizing Joyce. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Matthew, M. (2018). “But who was Gerty?” Intertextuality and the Advertising Language of “Nausicaa”. In W. S. Brockman, T. Mecsnóber, & S. Alonso (Edd.), Publishing in Joyce’s Ulysses: Newspapers, Advertising and Printing 89-106. Leiden; Boston: Brill/Rodopi, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004359062_008
McGann, J. (2001). Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Game that Must be Lost. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Mullin, K. (2003). James Joyce, Sexuality and Social Purity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Pesce, V. (2015). Beata Beatrix: La Vita Nuova e i quadri di Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Dante e l’arte, 2, 201-226. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/dea.34
Power, A. (1974). Conversations with James Joyce (a cura di C. Hart). Londra: Millington.
Power, T. (2018). Joyce’s Ulysses Library. Studies in Bibliography, 60, 229-250. https://doi.org/10.1353/sib.2018.0005
Reynolds, M. (1981). Joyce and Dante. The Shaping Imagination. Princeton (NJ): Princeton University Press.
Reynolds, M. (1978). Joyce’s Editions of Dante. James Joyce Quarterly, 15 (4), 380-384.
Richards, T. (1990). The Commodity Culture of Victorian England Advertising and Spectacle, 1851-1914. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Robinson, J. (2016). Joyce’s Dante. Exile, Memory, and Community. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316711682
Ross, E. (2009-2010). “See Ourselves as Others See Us”: A Study of Gerty MacDowell. Innervate. Leading Undergraduate Work in English Studies, 2, 377-384.
Senn, F. (1977). “Nausicaa”. In C. Hart, D. Hayman (Edd.). James Joyce’s Ulysses (pp. 277-311). Londra: University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520341708-016
Wickepp, J. (2004). Joyce and consumer culture. In D. Attridge (Ed.), The Cambirdge Companion to James Joyce (pp. 234-253). Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL0521837103.012
Published
How to Cite
Downloads
Copyright (c) 2024 Valentina Mele
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
