A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (7 page)

Almost three years later, on 29 December 1916, B. W. Huebsch brought
Portrait
out in book form in the United States (set from the
Egoist
proofsheets). Harriet Weaver imported the American sheets and published the book in England on 12 February 1917 under the
Egoist
imprint (dated 1916). The second (though first true English) edition, printed in Southport and published by the
Egoist
, appeared in March 1918 (though dated 1917; corrections were made for this edition from Joyce’s lists of errata compiled by Harriet Weaver). Another printing, using imported American sheets and issued under the
Egoist
imprint, appeared in 1921. The text was entirely reset with corrections and published by Jonathan Cape in 1924 (Joyce himself having carefully read proofs for this, the third edition). After this, Joyce’s attention was taken up with other matters.

In 1964, the ‘definitive’ text was published in the United States by Viking (and in England in 1968 by Jonathan Cape). This text was established by Chester G. Anderson comparing the holograph manuscript with all editions published in the USA and England during Joyce’s lifetime and with lists of corrections and changes noted by Joyce, and then submitting his suggested corrections to Richard Ellmann, who accepted some and rejected others.
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As Anderson himself has said, ‘there were errors’, some of which he tried in 1971 to correct, but these were ‘vetoed’ by Ellmann.
⁹
He did manage to get them into print in 1993.
¹⁰
That same year, Hans Walter Gabler produced the first truly critical edition, fully corrected using the fair-copy manuscript (held by the National Library of Ireland)
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as copy-text and collating this against the proofs and published text of the
Egoist
serialization, the New York first edition (1916), the second edition (English first edition, 1918), the third edition (Jonathan
Cape, 1924), and the Viking edition of 1964. He includes a full list of emendations of accidentals and a historical collation of variants.
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I recommend it to everyone interested in the full history of Joyce’s attempts to get a correct edition of
Portrait
into print.

The aim of this edition is more modest. The text is the 1968 Jonathan Cape printing of the 1964 ‘definitive text’ published by Viking and edited by Chester Anderson. Corrections marked by Joyce and collated by Harriet Weaver, some of which were made only to the English 1918 and 1924 editions, have been entered. Errors that crept into the 1968 Cape printing have been silently corrected. One late change, sent by Joyce to Harriet Weaver separately in 1917, has been entered. The chapter titles have been changed back from the Cape arabic numerals to the roman numerals of every other printing. All these are listed in the list of selected variants in the Appendix, which also notes selected departures in substantives of this text from the manuscript, the
Egoist
, 1916, 1918, 1924, 1964, and 1968 printings. Most of these mark differences between this text and the original manuscript. Finally, the three asterisks at section breaks (rather than Cape’s one) have been restored, and the practice of starting each chapter on a new page has been reinstated.

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bibliography/ Textual History

Anderson, Chester G., ‘About this Text’, in R. B. Kershner (ed.),
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’: Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism
(Boston: Bedford Books, 1993), pp. ix–x.

_____ ‘The Text of James Joyce’s
A Portrait of the Artist as a YoungMan’, Neuphilologische Mitteilungen
, 65 (Spring 1964), 160–200.

Cohn, Alan M., and Kain, Richard M. (comps.), ‘Supplemental James Joyce Checklist’ (now ‘Current James Joyce Checklist’),
James Joyce Quarterly
, 1– (1964–).

Deming, Robert H. (ed.),
A Bibliography of James Joyce Studies
, 2nd edn. (Boston: Hall, 1977).

Gabler, Hans Walter, ‘Introduction’ to James Joyce,
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
, ed. Hans Walter Gabler with Walter Hettche (New York: Garland Publishing, 1993), 1–18.

_____ ‘The Seven Lost Years of
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’
, in Thomas F. Staley and Bernard Benstock (eds.),
Approaches to Joyce’s ‘Portrait’: Ten Essays
(Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1976), 25–60.

_____ ‘Towards a Critical Text of James Joyce’s
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’, Studies in Bibliography
, 27 (1974), 1–53.

Rice, Thomas Jackson,
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(New York and London: Garland, 1982).

Scholes, Robert, and Kain, Richard M. (eds),
The Workshop of Daedalus: James Joyce and the Raw Materials for ‘A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’
(Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1965).

Slocum, John J., and Cahoon, Herbert,
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(1953; repr. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1971).

Biography

Ellmann, Richard,
James Joyce
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Beach, Sylvia,
Shakespeare and Company
(New York: Harcourt Brace, 1959).

Byrne, J. F.,
Silent Years: An Autobiography with Memoirs of James Joyce and Our Ireland
(New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1953).

Curran, C. P.,
James Joyce Remembered
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968).
Select Bibliography

_____
Struggle with Fortune
(Dublin: Browne and Nolan, n.d.).

Gorman, Herbert,
James Joyce
(1939; repr. London: John Lane and Bodley Head, 1941).

Joyce, Stanislaus,
Complete Dublin Diary of Stanislaus Joyce
, ed. George H. Healey (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1971).

_____
My Brother’s Keeper: James Joyce’s Early Years
, ed. Richard Ellmann (1958; repr. New York: Viking, 1969).

Lidderdale, Jane, and Nicholson, Mary,
Dear Miss Weaver: Harriet Shaw Weaver, 1876–1961
(New York: Viking, 1970).

Maddox, Brenda,
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(London: Hamish Hamilton, 1988).

Potts, Willard, (ed.),
Portraits of the Artist in Exile: Recollections of James Joyce by Europeans
(1979; repr. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1986). Pound, Ezra,
Pound/Joyce: The Letters of Ezra Pound to James Joyce, with Pound’s Essays on Joyce
, ed. Forrest Read (London: Faber & Faber, 1968).

Power, Arthur,
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, ed. Clive Hart (1974; repr. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982).

Sheehy, Eugene,
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(Dublin: C. J. Fallon, 1951).

Editions and Other Works

The Critical Writings of James Joyce
, ed. Ellsworth Mason and Richard Ellmann (1959; repr. New York: Viking, 1973).

The James Joyce Archive
, ed. Michael Groden, 63 vols. (New York and London: Garland, 1977–80), vols. 7–10:
Portrait
materials; Michael Groden (ed.),
James Joyce’s Manuscripts: An Index to the James Joyce Archive
(New York and London: Garland, 1980).

Joyce and Hauptmann: Before Sunrise: James Joyce’s Translation
, ed. Jill Perkins (San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library, 1978).

Letters of James Joyce
, 3 vols.: vol. i ed. Stuart Gilbert; vols. ii and iii ed. Richard Ellmann (New York: Viking, 1957, 1966).

Occasional, Critical, and Political Writing
, ed. Kevin Barry (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).

Poems and Shorter Writings
, ed. Richard Ellmann, A. Walton Litz, and John Whittier-Ferguson (London: Faber & Faber, 1991), especially ‘A Portrait of the Artist’ (1904), 211–18.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
, Viking Critical Edition, ed. Chester G. Anderson (New York: Viking, 1968).

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
, ed. J. S. Atherton, 2nd edn. (London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1973).

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
, ed. Hans Walter Gabler with Walter Hettche (New York: Garland, 1993).

Selected Letters of James Joyce
, ed. Richard Ellmann (New York: Viking, 1975).

Stephen Hero
, ed. Theodore Spencer, rev. edn. John J. Slocum and Herbert Cahoon (1963; repr. St Albans: Triad, 1977).

‘Ulysses’: The 1922 Text
, ed. Jeri Johnson, Oxford World’s Classics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993).

‘Ulysses’: A Critical and Synoptic Edition
, ed. Hans Walter Gabler with Wolfhard Steppe and Claus Melchior, 3 vols. (New York and London: Garland, 1984; rev. pbk. edn., 1986).

The Workshop of Daedalus: James Joyce and the Raw Materials for ‘A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’
(Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1965).

General Criticism

Attridge, Derek,
Peculiar Language: Literature as Difference from the Renaissance to James Joyce
(London: Methuen, 1988).

_____ (ed.),
The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990).

_____ and Ferrer, Daniel (eds.),
Post-Structuralist Joyce: Essays from the French
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984).

Aubert, Jacques,
The Aesthetics of James Joyce
(1973; rev. edn. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992).

Beja, Morris,
et al
. (eds.),
James Joyce: The Centennial Symposium
(Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1986).

Borach, Georges, ‘Conversations with James Joyce’, trans. and ed. Joseph Prescott,
College English
, 15 (Mar. 1954), 325–7.

Bowen, Zack, and Carens, James F. (eds.),
A Companion to Joyce Studies
(Westport, Conn. and London: Greenwood Press, 1984).

Brown, Richard,
Joyce and Sexuality
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985).

Budgen, Frank,
James Joyce and the Making of ‘Ulysses’
(1934; repr. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1961).

Cixous, Hélène,
The Exile of James Joyce
(1968), trans. Sally A. J. Purcell (New York: David Lewis, 1972).

Deming, Robert H. (ed.),
James Joyce: The Critical Heritage
, 2 vols. (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970).

Ellmann, Richard,
The Consciousness of Joyce
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1977).

Givens, Seon (ed.),
Two Decades of Joyce Criticism
(1948; rev. ed. New York: Vanguard, 1963).

Goldman, Arnold,
The Joyce Paradox: Form and Freedom in His Fiction
(London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1966).

Herr, Cheryl,
Joyce’s Anatomy of Culture
(Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1986).

Kenner, Hugh,
Dublin’s Joyce
(1955; repr. with new introd. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987).

_____
Joyce’s Voices
(Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1978).

Levin, Harry,
James Joyce: A Critical Introduction
(1941; rev. edn. New York: New Directions, 1960).

MacCabe, Colin,
James Joyce and the Revolution of the Word
(London: Macmillan, 1978).

_____ (ed.)
James Joyce: New Perspectives
(Brighton: Harvester Press, 1982).

Mahaffey, Vicki,
Reauthorizing Joyce
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).

Manganiello, Dominic,
Joyce’s Politics
(London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980).

Noon, William T.,
Joyce and Aquinas
(1957; repr. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963).

Parrinder, Patrick,
James Joyce
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984).

Peake, C. H.,
James Joyce: The Citizen and the Artist
(London: Edward Arnold, 1977).

Rabaté, Jean-Michel,
James Joyce, Authorized Reader
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991).

_____
Joyce Upon the Void: The Genesis of Doubt
(New York: St Martin’s Press, 1991).

Riquelme, John Paul,
Teller and Tale in Joyce’s Fiction: Oscillating Perspectives
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983).