Is It Joyce We Are Reading? Non-Fiction, Authorship, and Digital Humanities

This chapter reflects on possible updates to Barry’s Occasional, Critical, and Political Writing in relation to the discovery of new manuscript materials, in particular the Paris and Pola notebook; the restrictions imposed on publication by the James Joyce Estate; probable errors of attribution; and the reconsideration of unpublished English translations of Joyce’s Italian journalism in the James Joyce Archive. Finally, it makes use of new methods of computer-based natural language analysis to offer a definitive statement on the corpus of Joyce’s non-fictional writing, especially in relation to the contested essay “Politics and Cattle Disease.”