This study examines the representation of marital and extramarital relations in James Joyce's texts, with reference to context and to Joyce's biography. 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.

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

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Introduction: Joyce's Sexual/Textual Ethics Nora and Marthe Katharine and Parnell Beyond the Margins of Marriage in Exiles and Giacomo Joyce Ulysses and Adultery: Wandering Ulysses and Adultery: Homecoming The solid man saved by his sillied woman: Reconciliation and Radical Alterity in Finnegans Wake