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Finnegans Wake II.2., which is commonly known as “Nightlessons,” is allegedly one of the most obscure chapters of the Wake, but it is also one of the richest, meriting a focused investigation of the text. This volume brings together an eclectic group of Joyce scholars to examine various important aspects of “Nightlessons” from a variety of theoretical approaches including gender studies, textual genetics, environmental humanities, and digital humanities. The volume returns to the essential concerns of scholarship on the chapter— the children’s lessons, the chapter’s themes and intertexts, the logic of the marginalia, and Joyce’s process— while introducing fresh perspectives that represent current scholarly trends. Challenging long-held assumptions about “Nightlessons” as impenetrable, the volume illuminates the chapter as a rich and rewarding Joycean text for both seasoned readers of the Wake and anyone interested in twentieth-century literature.
Price: $99.00
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
19 November 2026
ISBN: 9789004755499
Format: Paperback
Shinjini Chattopadhyay is Assistant Professor at the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has published widely on James Joyce and guest edited a special issue on networks of transnationality for the Joyce Studies Annual.
Yaeli Greenblatt is a lecturer at The Rothberg International School and Hebrew University English department, where she earned her PhD. She teaches theater studies and acting at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. She has published on modernist authors James Joyce and Flann O’Brien.
Vicki Mahaffey is Clayton and Thelma Kirkpatrick Professor at the Department of English, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, emerita, and Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, emerita. She is the author of several monographs on modernism. Her most recent book, The Joyce of Everyday Life, was published by Bucknell University Press in 2024 and was awarded the Robert Rhodes Prize by the American Conference for Irish Studies. She also edited a special issue of the James Joyce Quarterly on "Women's Issues" (Winter 2025).
Yaeli Greenblatt is a lecturer at The Rothberg International School and Hebrew University English department, where she earned her PhD. She teaches theater studies and acting at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. She has published on modernist authors James Joyce and Flann O’Brien.
Vicki Mahaffey is Clayton and Thelma Kirkpatrick Professor at the Department of English, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, emerita, and Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, emerita. She is the author of several monographs on modernism. Her most recent book, The Joyce of Everyday Life, was published by Bucknell University Press in 2024 and was awarded the Robert Rhodes Prize by the American Conference for Irish Studies. She also edited a special issue of the James Joyce Quarterly on "Women's Issues" (Winter 2025).