Binnie, G orcid.org/0000-0002-1579-075X (2019) “Photo girl he calls her”: Re-Reading Milly in "Ulysses". Journal of Modern Literature, 42 (2). pp. 39-53. ISSN 0022-281X
Abstract
Milly Bloom, James Joyce’s “Photo girl” in “Ulysses” (1922), has typically been read by critics as a whimsical and overtly-sexualised figure, despite the more progressive aspects of her role in the photographic industry. In “Ulysses”, photography is depicted as a hereditary pursuit, as when Joyce describes Leopold Bloom as thinking of his daughter, “Now photography. Poor papa’s daguerreotype atelier he told me of. Hereditary taste” (U 8 173-74). Joyce’s relationship with his daughter, Lucia, was frequently mediated by photography. In 1936, he purchased a camera for Lucia after encouraging her to pursue this medium. In re-reading Milly’s role via George Eastman’s Kodak Girl, and the emergence of Irish and Triestine visual culture, new light is shed on the relationship between female photography and familial duty.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Authors/Creators: |
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Keywords: | James Joyce; Milly Bloom; Photography; Kodak Girl; Trieste |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of English (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 02 Aug 2018 12:21 |
Last Modified: | 01 Nov 2019 15:24 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Indiana University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.2979/jmodelite.42.4.04 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:134047 |