Upright man/fallen woman: identification and desire in James Joyce's "A Painful Case" - racial studies - Critical Essay

Style, Spring, 2001 by Gerald Doherty

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Gerald Doherty studied medicine and literature at University College, Dublin, where he was refused permission to do postgraduate work. His essays on modernist writers have appeared in PMLA, Style, Criticism, Mosaic, Modern Fiction Studies, the James Joyce Quarterly, European Joyce Studies, and many other journals and collections. He has recently published a book entitled Theorizing Lawrence: Nine Meditations on Tropological Themes.