James Joyce and the Revolt of Love Marriage, Adultery, Desire

This study examines the representation of marital and extramarital relations in James Joyce's texts, with reference to context and to Joyce's biography. Janine Utell claims that Joyce uses these relations to imagine a different kind of love, one based in a radical acceptance and a rejection of a utilitarian and sexually repressive stance towards marriage. Through Joyce's explosion of conventional narrative, particularly the marriage plot, Utell reveals a new way to read and a new way to love.

Janine Utell is Associate Professor of English at Widener University.  She has published on many aspects of modernist studies in Journal of Modern Literature, The Space Between, College Literature, and James Joyce Quarterly.