The Most Dangerous Book
by Kevin Birmingham · first published 2014
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An artistic and legal history of James Joice's Ulysses.
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There's an excellent book about this by Kevin Birmingham, "The Most Dangerous Book" https://www.amazon.com/Most-Dangerous-Book-Battle-Ulysses/dp...
on “The Banning of Joyce's Ulysses” ↗Complementary reading: "A Most Dangerous Book. Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich" by Christopher B. Krebs (W.W. Norton & Company, NY, 2011) (German translation: "Ein gefährliches Buch. Die 'Germania' des Tacitus und die…
on “The Battle That Created Germany” ↗…contrast with the Julian dynasty, but became a historic document and origin story for a few centuries. (Sad to say, but humanists had a decent share in this.) Related literature: Chrisopher B. Krebs, "A Most Dangerous Book. Tacitus' Germania from Roman Empire to the Third Reich", W.W. Norton & Company, NY, 2011.
on “A monk in 14th-century Italy wrote about the Americas” ↗I've really been fascinated with how explicitly people set out to build nations in the 19th Century. I read Christopher Krebs' _A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich_ and it traces a different lineage in the same process- the process of turning someone who, say, lived in Mainz and thought of themselves as…
on “The Brothers Grimm: A Biography” ↗