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The Encryption of Finnegans Wake Resolved : W. T. Stead - Grace Eckley

The Encryption of Finnegans Wake Resolved

W. T. Stead

By: Grace Eckley

eText | 19 December 2017 | Edition Number 1

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At risk of life and reputation, the reform journalist W. T. Stead (1849-1912) exposed child vice and white slavery in London and established age 16 for statutory rape. Concluding the 1914 Portrait, Joyce saluted the “Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead” and set the path of future works. The exemplary life and devotions of Stead provided James Joyce with a model, a theme, and a purpose. Joyce integrated Steadfacts with his own personal emerging autobiography and interpretation of the ongoing Irish national, international, and even cosmic events. In this book Eckley uses new sources to unravel forgotten languages, motifs, and metaphors and recognizes “obscurity” as a “chrysalis factor” in Joyce’s Finnegans Wake to illuminate Stead’s influence on Joyce. This book of Finnegans Wake criticism will open paths for exciting new efforts in studying Joyce.
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Students of late Victorian Britain, which then included Ireland, have long seen W. T. Stead, both as a colourful journalist and a leading public figure, as one of the most influential opinion makers of his era. Grace Eckley, in her indefatigable researches into the allusional depths of Finnegans Wake, shows that for James Joyce's parallel universe W. T. Stead was equally important. She demonstrates that far from being a mere phantasmagoria, the text is deeply rooted in the mental and moral atmosphere of its times, and that Stead plays there as great a role as he did in the real world. She demonstrates too not just the value of close reading, but also of ever-deeper researches into what Joyce, like so many millions, actually read and absorbed, and how so many almost forgotten events form an integral part of his imaginative world.
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