Joyce’s Creative Process and the Construction of Characters in Ulysses: Becoming the Blooms

This book is both a study of how James Joyce created two of the most iconic characters in literatureDLLeopold Bloom and Marion Tweedy BloomDLas well as a history of the genesis of Ulysses. From a genetic critical perspective, it explores the conception and evolution of the Blooms as fictional characters in the work’s wide range of surviving notes and manuscripts. At the same time, it also chronicles the production of Ulysses from 1917 to its first edition in 1922 and beyond. Based on decades of research, it is an original engagement with the textual archive of Ulysses, including the exciting, recently-discovered manuscripts now in the National Library of Ireland.