You Can File this All Under "A City in Decline" (Dubliners, Part 1)

In Part 1 of our discussion on Dubliners, we welcome editor Ian Whittington to discuss
how this collection of short stories was received by its publisher, by its literary audience, and by the people who made up its subject matter; the Dublin in which Joyce grew up; and, of course, Ian's favorite story.

Ian Whittington is an independent scholar whose research and teaching focus on twentieth-century anglophone literature and culture. He is the author of Writing the Radio War: Literature, Politics and the BBC and co-editor of The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism and Technology. His work has appeared in Modernist Cultures, Modernism/modernity, The Global South, and other venues.

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Episode transcript at https://seagull.wwnorton.com/dubliners/part1/transcript.