{"product_id":"exiles-9780198800064","title":"Exiles","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e'That is my fear. That I stand between her and any moments of life that should be hers...'\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet against the backdrop of the Home Rule Crisis of 1912, Exiles is James Joyce's only surviving play. It tells the story of writer Richard Rowan and his common-law wife Bertha, characters drawn from Joyce's own life with Nora Barnacle. After a decade of absence from Dublin, Richard and Bertha have returned home from Rome, still unmarried, with their young son Archie. Richard hopes that he will be greeted as a returning genius and rewarded with a comfortable university position. But this aspiration ends up taking a back seat to the erotic crisis that is unleashed by the couple's return to the place where they first met, and their encounters with two old flames and friends. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this play, Joyce revisits his own agonizing feelings of jealousy that were precipitated by similar trips home to Dublin. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the introduction and notes, Keri Walsh provides a comprehensive look issues of gender, sexuality, and performance as well as considering the nationalist and sectarian contexts of Dublin in 1912, the year of the play's setting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJames Joyce\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKeri Walsh\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Institute of Irish Studies at Fordham University in New York. She is the editor of James Joyce's \u003cem\u003eDubliners\u003c\/em\u003e (2016) and \u003cem\u003eThe Letters of Sylvia Beach\u003c\/em\u003e (2010).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50726812942610,"sku":"9780198800064","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_efd64bbb-470e-43ca-852c-78e16cf94f43.jpg?v=1734884548","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/exiles-9780198800064","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}