A Companion to James Joyce offers a unique composite overview and analysis of Joyce's writing, his global image, and his growing impact on twentieth- and twenty-first-century literatures.

• Brings together 25 newly-commissioned essays by some of the top scholars in the field
• Explores Joyce's distinctive cultural place in Irish, British and European modernism and the growing impact of his work elsewhere in the world
• A comprehensive and timely Companion to current debates and possible areas of future development in Joyce studies
• Offers new critical readings of several of Joyce's works, including Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses