Exiles -- James Joyce

<strong>'That is my fear. That I stand between her and any moments of life that should be hers...'</strong> <p/>Set against the backdrop of the Home Rule Crisis of 1912, Exiles is James Joyce's only surviving play. It tells the story of writer Richard Rowan and his common-law wife Bertha, characters drawn from Joyce's own life with Nora Barnacle. After a decade of absence from Dublin, Richard and Bertha have<br>returned home from Rome, still unmarried, with their young son Archie. Richard hopes that he will be greeted as a returning genius and rewarded with a comfortable university position. But this aspiration ends up taking a back seat to the erotic crisis that is unleashed by the couple's return to the<br>place where they first met, and their encounters with two old flames and friends. <p/>In this play, Joyce revisits his own agonizing feelings of jealousy that were precipitated by similar trips home to Dublin. <p/>In the introduction and notes, Keri Walsh provides a comprehensive look issues of gender, sexuality, and performance as well as considering the nationalist and sectarian contexts of Dublin in 1912, the year of the play's setting.<br><br><br><b>Author:</b> James Joyce<br><b>Publisher:</b> Oxford University Press, USA<br><b>Published:</b> 02/01/2021<br><b>Pages:</b> 192<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.31lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.60d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780198800064<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><br><strong>James Joyce</strong> <p