This highly original contribution to Canadian intellectual history examines the course of critical inquiry and its relationship to the assertion of moral authority in English-Canadian thought during the Victorian era.

An investigation into the narrative in relation to the changing contextual situations, both in "Ulysses" and in other Joyce texts. Other works by this author include "Critical Essays on James Joyce", "Approaches to Ulysses", and "The Seventh of Joyce".

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.