Mary Trackett Reynolds (c. 1913 – 25 August 2000) was an American authority on the Irish writer James Joyce.
Mary Reynolds | |
|---|---|
| Born | c 1913 Milwaukee |
| Died | 25 August 2000 Washington, USA |
| Occupation | Academic, writer |
Life and work
editMary Trackett Reynolds was born in Milwaukee. She was educated in the University of Wisconsin–Madison where she graduated with a bachelor's and master's degree. Her doctorate in political science was gained from Columbia University.[1][2] She remained in academia and worked teaching political science at colleges such as Hunter, Brooklyn and Queens colleges in New York City and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore as well as a seminar on Irish literature and history at Yale.[1][2]
Considered the seminal authority on Joyce, Reynolds was also a trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation. She was an editor at the Joyce Studies Annual and the James Joyce Quarterly.[1][2] Reynolds was involved in seeing Ulysses get published in China in the 1990s.[2]
She died of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma leaving a husband, two daughters and a son.[1][2]
Bibliography
edit- Joyce and Dante: The Shaping Imagination (Princeton University Press, 1981)
- Joyce and Nora (1964)
- Joyce and D'Annunzio (1976)
- Mr. Bloom and the Lost Vermeer (1989)
- James Joyce: New Century Views (1993).
References
editFurther reading
edit- D. Weir (3 June 2015). Ulysses Explained: How Homer, Dante, and Shakespeare Inform Joyce's Modernist Vision. Palgrave Macmillan US. pp. 160–. ISBN 978-1-137-48287-7.
- Mark Shechner (1974). Joyce in Nighttown: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry Into Ulysses. University of California Press. pp. 62–. ISBN 978-0-520-02398-7.
- Donald Phillip Verene (1987). Vico and Joyce. SUNY Press. ISBN 978-0-88706-500-2.