Through what Joyce described as their style of scrupulous meanness the stories present a
direct sometimes searing view of Dublin in the early twentieth century. The text of this
Norton Critical Edition is based on renowned Joyce scholar Hans Walter Gabler’s edited text and
includes his editorial notes and the introduction to his scholarly edition which details and
discusses Dubliners’ complicated publication history. Contexts offers a rich collection of
materials that bring the stories and the Irish capital to life for twenty-first century readers
including photographs newspaper articles and advertising early versions of two of the stories
and a satirical poem by Joyce about his publication woes. Criticism brings together eight
illuminating essays on the most frequently taught stories in Dubliners - Araby Eveline After
the Race The Boarding House Counterpoints A Painful Case and The Dead. Contributors include
David G. Wright Heyward Ehrlich Margot Norris James Fairhall Fritz Senn Morris Beja
Roberta Jackson and Vincent J. Cheng.
