Suspicious Readings of Joyce's Dubliners

List of Abbreviations ix Introduction 1(15) 1 The Gnomon of the Book: "The Sisters" 16(14) 2 A Walk on the Wild(e) Side: "An Encounter" 30(15) 3 Blind Streets and Seeing Houses: "Araby" 45(10) 4 The Perils of "Eveline" 55(13) 5 Masculinity Games in "After the Race" 68(12) 6 Gambling with Gambles in "Two Gallants" 80(13) 7 Narrative Bread Pudding: "The Boarding House" 93(16) 8 Men Under a Cloud in "A Little Cloud" 109(13) 9 Farrington, the Scrivener, Revisited: "Counterparts" 122(18) 10 Narration Under the Blindfold in "Clay" 140(18) 11 Shocking the Reader in "A Painful Case" 158(14) 12 Genres in Dispute: "Ivy Day in the Committee Room" 172(13) 13 Critical Judgment and Gender Prejudice in "A Mother" 185(12) 14 Setting Critical Accounts Aright in "Grace" 197(19) 15 The Politics of Gender and Art in "The Dead" 216(21) Notes 237(28) Works Cited 265(10) Index 275(6) Acknowledgments 281