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

Culleton, C.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2004-07-19

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780312235536

DOI: 10.1057/9781403973498

Dimensions: 203cm x127cm

Pages: 232