James Joyce and the Act of Reception

Review of the hardback: 'John Nash's James Joyce and the Act of Reception is a thoughtful, astute, and invaluable contribution to two affiliated and increasingly debated questions. For this book not only offers a meticulous and persuasive account of Joyce's career-long engagement with his audiences - in Ireland and in Europe, in his lifetimes and beyond - it, perhaps more importantly, also makes a significant contribution to ongoing critical conversations about modernism's relationship to various imagined audiences, its supposed resistance to the 'common reader', and its often-cited dependance upon patrons and coteries.' Katherine Mullin, University of Leeds