[Next Project] Exiles by James Joyce

[Erin]

PG: https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/55945
IA: 2nd English edition (Egoist Press, 1921)

Exiles is Joyce’s only surviving play. Scans of the 1st American edition of 1918 are also available online, but according to the PG clearance database their transcription is of the 1921 edition.

The front matter of this 2016 critical edition of the play notes some editorial decisions affecting the early editions (i.e. those of both 1918 and 1921) that distinguish them from Joyce's fair copy manuscript. These decisions include normalising all idiosyncratically extended ellipses to only three dots; changing styling of stage directions; and changing words (e.g. in one stage direction, substituting “suddenly” for Joyce’s “tenderly”). 

According to the critical edition Joyce wrote to the publishers of the first American edition after its appearance in 1918 that the printing “seems to be very careless” and that it was “a great pity” that no proofs were sent to him.

However, as neither the critical edition nor the manuscript (published in the 70s) is PD, and Joyce actually reviewed and corrected proofs of the 1921 Egoist Press edition (see here), the latter seems to me adequate for our purposes. Is it OK with you Alex?

[Alex Cabal]

Hi Erin, sorry for the late reply. Yes, I agree, use the 1921 edition.
Please send a link to your repo once you get started!

On 6/14/24 5:53 PM, Erin wrote:
> PG: https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/55945 <https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/55945>
> IA: 2nd English edition
> <https://archive.org/details/playinthreexiles00joycrich> (Egoist Press,

> 1921)
>
> Exiles is Joyce’s only surviving play. Scans of the 1st American edition

> <https://archive.org/details/exilesaplayinth00joycgoog/page/n4/mode/2up> of 1918 are also available online, but according to the PG clearance database their transcription is of the 1921 edition.

>
> The front matter of this 2016 critical edition

> <https://archive.org/details/exilescriticaled0000joyc/page/18/mode/1up> of the play notes some editorial decisions affecting the early editions (i.e. those of both 1918 and 1921) that distinguish them from Joyce's fair copy manuscript. These decisions include normalising all idiosyncratically extended ellipses to only three dots; changing styling of stage directions; and changing words (e.g. in one stage direction, substituting “suddenly” for Joyce’s “tenderly”).

>
> According to the critical edition Joyce wrote to the publishers of the
> first American edition after its appearance in 1918 that the printing
> “seems to be very careless” and that it was “a great pity” that no
> proofs were sent to him.
>
> However, as neither the critical edition nor the manuscript (published
> in the 70s) is PD, and Joyce actually reviewed and corrected proofs of
> the 1921 Egoist Press edition (see here

> <https://library.buffalo.edu/jamesjoyce/catalog/iii-exiles/iiib/>), the

> latter seems to me adequate for our purposes. Is it OK with you Alex?
>

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[Erin]

Great, and no need to be sorry! Here is the repo: https://github.com/erinendrei/james-joyce_exiles

[Alex Cabal]

Vince can you manage this with David reviewing?

On 6/17/24 9:49 PM, Erin wrote:
> Great, and no need to be sorry! Here is the repo:
> https://github.com/erinendrei/james-joyce_exiles
> On Tuesday 18 June 2024 at 12:13:18 am UTC+10 Alex Cabal wrote:
>
> Hi Erin, sorry for the late reply. Yes, I agree, use the 1921 edition.
> Please send a link to your repo once you get started!
>
> On 6/14/24 5:53 PM, Erin wrote:
> > PG: https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/55945
> <https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/55945>
> <https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/55945
> <https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/55945>>
> > IA: 2nd English edition
> > <https://archive.org/details/playinthreexiles00joycrich
> <https://archive.org/details/playinthreexiles00joycrich>> (Egoist
> Press,
> > 1921)
> >
> > Exiles is Joyce’s only surviving play. Scans of the 1st American
> edition
> >

> <https://archive.org/details/exilesaplayinth00joycgoog/page/n4/mode/2up <https://archive.org/details/exilesaplayinth00joycgoog/page/n4/mode/2up>> of 1918 are also available online, but according to the PG clearance database their transcription is of the 1921 edition.

> >
> > The front matter of this 2016 critical edition
> >

> <https://archive.org/details/exilescriticaled0000joyc/page/18/mode/1up <https://archive.org/details/exilescriticaled0000joyc/page/18/mode/1up>> of the play notes some editorial decisions affecting the early editions (i.e. those of both 1918 and 1921) that distinguish them from Joyce's fair copy manuscript. These decisions include normalising all idiosyncratically extended ellipses to only three dots; changing styling of stage directions; and changing words (e.g. in one stage direction, substituting “suddenly” for Joyce’s “tenderly”).

> >
> > According to the critical edition Joyce wrote to the publishers
> of the
> > first American edition after its appearance in 1918 that the
> printing
> > “seems to be very careless” and that it was “a great pity” that no
> > proofs were sent to him.
> >
> > However, as neither the critical edition nor the manuscript
> (published
> > in the 70s) is PD, and Joyce actually reviewed and corrected
> proofs of
> > the 1921 Egoist Press edition (see here
> > <https://library.buffalo.edu/jamesjoyce/catalog/iii-exiles/iiib/
> <https://library.buffalo.edu/jamesjoyce/catalog/iii-exiles/iiib/>>),
> the
> > latter seems to me adequate for our purposes. Is it OK with you
> Alex?
> >
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[David]

Review booked in!

David / Fife, UK

[Vince Rice]

Will do.

> On Jun 18, 2024, at 10:21 AM, Alex Cabal <al...@standardebooks.org> wrote:
>
> Vince can you manage this with David reviewing?

[Erin]

I thought this could work as cover art: Interior from Rudolfina Wasastjerna's home in Helsinki, Pohjoisranta 6 by Torsten Wasastjerna, CC0 at Finnish National Gallery

The play primarily concerns the relationships between the male and female characters, and each of the acts is set indoors, so I'd been hoping to find an interior scene containing both men and women. I think the leftmost figure in the painting appears to be smoking something; the main male character smokes a cigarette at one point in the first act so that's at least not a problem.

The obvious problem with using the above painting is that the play has no connection to Finland whatsoever. Something Irish would clearly be best, but as mentioned previously on the list PD Irish art is scarce. The painting also doesn't seem to me to contain anything distinctively Finnish, though I could be wrong there. Let me know what you think Vince or Alex.

[Vince]

I agree, I don’t see anything uniquely Finnish about it; I’ve added it to the artwork database.

On Jun 21, 2024, at 2:37 AM, Erin <erin....@gmail.com> wrote:

I thought this could work as cover art: Interior from Rudolfina Wasastjerna's home in Helsinki, Pohjoisranta 6 by Torsten Wasastjerna, CC0 at Finnish National Gallery