Research projects
Our researchers are engaged in re-discovering authors, challenging the literary canon and bringing new approaches to bear on established texts.
Networks of Association & Intimacy: The Legacies & Letters of Harriet Shaw Weaver & Sylvia Beach
Based on recent research in Princeton, Clare Hutton is currently writing a long essay on ‘The Legacies and Letters of Harriet Shaw Weaver and Sylvia Beach’. This builds on ‘Women and the Making of Ulysses’ and explores the correspondence which passed between two of Joyce’s female publishers, Harriet Shaw Weaver and Sylvia Beach from 1920 to 1961. These letters tell a rich and detailed story of female friendship, and reflect an unusual perspective on Joyce’s life. In close reading this record, the aim is to establish the basis for a different kind of biography, one which is feminist and nuanced, and which appraises the significance of women working behind the scenes.