Raising the Wind Will Rogers once remarked that “the minute you read something you don’t understand, you can be almost sure it was drawn up by a lawyer.” This special double issue of the James Joyce Quarterly on “Joyce and the Law” has been co-edited by both a literary critic and a scholar turned lawyer-a fact which might well have driven Rogers to despair. I am happy to report, however, that the eight essays gathered together here match rigorous analysis to rhetorical clarity, producing a collection as engaged as it is engaging. The issue itself has been a long time in preparation, with some of these essays having arrived in our office well over three years ago. Originally, Joe Valente and Bob Spoo had intended to array the essays here around the latter’s now well-known “Copyright Protectionism and Its Discontents: The Case of James Joyce’s Ulysses in America.” This piece, which first appeared in the Yale Law Journal in 1998, rummaged about in the murky history of intellectual property rights to conclude that “except for a brief period, the 1922 Paris edition of Ulysses has never enjoyed copyright protection in the United States.” Rather than merely a polemical attempt to extricate Joyce’s most famous work from his estate’s legal control, this seminal essay was both an eloquent defense of the public domain and a vital contribution to the burgeoning field loosely described as law and literature. This essay has now become so well known among Joyceans, however, that to reprint it belatedly here in 2002 would dull its original critical edge. After all, a good deal has happened in the four years since the essay first appeared. In October 2000, for example, the Irish High Court granted an injunction preventing the inclusion of excerpts from Danis Rose’s edition of Ulysses in a major anthology of modern Irish literature. In its place, there appeared only a blank insert tersely noting that “pages 323-346 have been removed due to a dispute in relation to copyright.” A year later, in July 2001, Irish Distillers and the Irish Times avoided a trial by agreeing to pay damages to the Joyce estate for having underwritten a Bloomsday reading of Ulysses broadcast over the internet in 1998. And just this last November, a high-court judge in London brought to a close the Estate’s suit against Danis Rose and his publisher, Macmillan, by granting an injunction preventing further production of the “Ulysses”: A Reader’s Edition. In his lengthy “Introduction” to this issue, Spoo expands his original analysis of the American copyright by exploring these recent developments in detail, weighing their potential impact on the Estate’s legal claims. The result, I think, is an essay both more frank and more generous than the one which first appeared in the Yale Law Journal, exploring the highly fraught contest between the rights of the Joyce Estate and those we all share as members of a public sphere which must maintain the cultural past as a common and renewable resource. The decision not to reprint Spoo’s original article in this special issue of the JJQ has had the fortuitous effect of bringing the diversity of the other essays printed here into sharper relief. Rather than lining up in ranks behind Spoo to open yet another front in the Joyce wars (the Waterloo of which continually recedes from us), these pieces instead constitute a sort of second generation of scholarship on Joyce and the law, one that avoids the trenches of polemic and looks instead to the complex legal, historical, and moral entanglements which thread their way through Joyce’s life and works. Others have been over this ground already-including Paul Vanderham and Joseph Kelly among others-and the pieces gathered here build on these first studies of obscenity, book banning, and copyright to relocate Joyce within those very institutions of legal and moral authority that he both hated and embraced. They span from Paul Saint-Amour’s fanciful but provocative defense of Samuel Roth’s piracy of Ulysses to Fritz Senn’s eclectic reading of the legalistic concerns woven through “Cyclops.” There are pieces here by well-known Joyce scholars such as Mary Lowe-Evans and Carol Loeb Shloss, as well as two contributions by legal scholars whose work has not appeared in these pages before: Conrad L. Rushing, a federal judge, and Carmelo Medina Casado, a Spanish attorney. The result is an unusually diverse issue of the JJQ which manages to hold Joyce and his work squarely in view even while interrogating a much broader array of questions ranging from the ethics of “booklegging” to the sometimes troubling distinction between moral and legal rights. Spoo has labored successfully to remind us all that we simply cannot consider Joyce’s works apart from the complex social and political institutions which continue to shape their reception and circulation. He and Joe Valente have gathered together an excellent collection of work, and the delay in getting it to press only testifies to the importance of the issues they address. For despite having been largely written and conceived nearly four years ago, they remain just as smart and refreshing as when they first passed into the offices of the JJQ. I want to thank both Bob and Joe for their efforts in putting this issue together, and for helping us all to pick apart the fascinating threads which entangle Joyce in the law. *** Recent Deaths One of the sadder duties that has fallen to me as editor is to record and attempt to memorialize the passing of those who have shaped our understanding of Joyce, his work, and his world. This task is made all the more difficult for me since, as a relative neophyte among Joyceans, I have not always had a chance to meet those whose passing I must nevertheless commemorate. Such is the case with Donald T. Torchiana, Professor Emeritus of English at Northwestern University, who died last May in Connecticut at the age of 77. I had not met Professor Torchiana, but we have all, I suspect, encountered him at one time or another in his 1986 volume, Backgrounds for Joyce’s “Dubliners.” I remember turning to this book when writing my first essay on Joyce, and I still recommend it to my students. Torchiana directed his energies to Irish studies in general and not just to Joyce, and perhaps his most well-known work was the meticulous and scholarly study, W. B. Yeats and Georgian Ireland (1966). Students and teachers alike will lament this loss. In October 1998, we also lost Walter Kendrick, whose essay in this issue, “The Corruption of Gerty McDowell,” we hope will prove a fitting memorial to a scholar whose work is as remarkable for its diversity as for its insight. After receiving his Ph.D. from Yale, he joined the English Department at Fordham University in 1975, where he published books with such tantalizing titles as The Thrill of Fear: 250 Years of Scary Entertainment (Grove, 1991) and The Secret Museum: Pornography in Modern Culture (California, 1987). In addition, he contributed essays and reviews not only to scholarly journals, but to the Village Voice, the Boston Globe, and the New York Times. We regret his loss, and wish he could have seen this issue make it to print. Finally, I have also learned of the death of Frederick Joseph Joyce last October. He was the grandfather of the artist Paul Joyce (whose prints adorn my office door), and the son of James Joyce’s younger brother, Charles Patrick Joyce. Though relatively unknown to most Joyceans, his son Bob is familiar to those associated with Dublin’s James Joyce Center. *** News and Notes I have just returned from this year’s James Joyce birthday conference, and can report that the meeting had the same intoxicating mix of serious scholarship and good cheer which we have come to expect whenever our coterie gathers. The conference made its inaugural appearance a few hundred miles from Miami on the verdant, if strangely quiet, campus of the University of South Florida-Manatee in Sarasota. Adam Harvey once again stole the show with a recitation of the “Anna Livia Plurabelle” section from Finnegans Wake. Like his performance in Berkeley, at which both John Gordon and Maria McGarrity marveled in the last issue of the JJQ, this was done entirely from memory, and was accompanied by a choreographed series of gestures and movements which transformed the reading into a performance. The piece was staged on a busy Friday night in downtown Sarasota, and I will long remember the startled looks of the passers-by who gaped through the window, and the even more puzzled expressions of the few who ventured into the bookstore only to find a roomful of people listening in rapt pleasure to what sounded like gibberish. There was also a wonderful dramatic adaptation of the Ulysses obscenity trial put on by a local theater group, as well as the usual rounds of song-both beautiful and bawdy-which always mark these conferences. James Baltrum will provide a full report on the conference in the next issue, so I’ll turn instead to the various bits of news I have lately gleaned. Planning for the 2002 Joyce Symposium in Trieste is now complete, and the conference program seems to be firmly in place. The academic side has been organized by Sebastian Knowles and Geert Lernout, while local planning has fallen into the hands of Renzo Crivelli and John McCourt. The latter will be guest-editing our forthcoming special issue on “Joyce and Trieste” which we plan to unveil at a reception co-hosted by the JJQ during the Symposium. In what has become a welcome tradition, the International James Joyce Foundation will again be offering scholarships of $1,100 for graduate students who plan to attend. In addition, both the Trieste Joyce School, in association with Trieste Azienda di Promozione Turistica, and the Friends of the Zurich James Joyce Foundation will be offering scholarship assistance to students from eastern Europe. More information about both the scholarships and the conference is now available on the web at http://www.theoffice.it/joyce. This is an excellent site, and conveniently allows one both to register for the conference and book hotels online.   After Trieste, we will be able to mark our Bloomsday calendars and plan our travel through at least 2006. Future conference sites include Dublin (2004), Cornell (2006), and Almeria, Spain (2006). For those wondering about 2003, I am happy to announce that it will be held here at the University of Tulsa from (tentatively) 16-20 June. This will mark the fortieth anniversary of the James Joyce Quarterly, and to commemorate the event we plan to convene a roundtable including Tom Staley, Bob Spoo, and myself to discuss the past, present, and future of Joyce studies. In addition, a significant exhibition of Joyce-related materials will be mounted by the Special Collections Department of McFarlin Library. It will be an event designed to pair celebration with scholarship, and I hope you will all come and join us. For those who cannot make it to Trieste, or perhaps just want to fill their summer with Joyce, I have received notice that Fritz Senn will again be hosting the Zurich International Workshop, this year from 4-10 August. The topic, “Alienation and Its Discontents,” is broadly designed to include issues of nationalism, exile, asylum, hybridity, foreignness, and defamiliarization. As always, Fritz asks that “participants research and thoroughly prepare their contributions and present their findings in an open and lucid manner (no papers) and so set up a topic for ample feedback and discussion. Morning sessions (warm-ups) are devoted to pertinent questions that have cropped up, or else to close readings. There will be social gatherings in the evenings and most likely a boat trip on the Lake.” Topics and titles should be sent to Zurich James Joyce Foundation, Augustinergasse 9, CH-8001, Zurich Switzerland. The shiniest new arrival in our offices here is the first installment of the Finnegans Wake Notebooks published by Brepols Press. The books are beautiful, with full-page reproductions of the notebook pages accompanied by complete transcriptions that have been impressively sourced. There are scholarly introductions to each volume detailing significant passages, and a lengthy appendix containing crisp color images of selected pages. This represents a formidable scholarly achievement in and of itself, and I marvel to think that we have received only the first three (VI.B10, B.3, and B.29) of a proposed fifty volumes. I have already solicited two reviewers to handle the complex task of assessing these volumes, and both pieces will appear in a future issue of the JJQ. I have also received word that the University of Wisconsin Press has initiated the Irish Literature and Culture Series under the general editorship of Michael Patrick Gillespie. The series “will publish studies devoted to the examination of contemporary Irish writing and society,” and is particularly interested in research and writing covering film, biography, Irish-American writing, gay and lesbian studies, the plastic and performing arts, and the works of James Joyce. The editors plan to publish the first book in the series by the fall of 2003. Those interested in submitting a manuscript for publication should write either to the Press or to Gillespie. It is a busy time here at the JJQ as we work to get the journal back on schedule while simultaneously expanding our digital presence. Even as I write this, the staff has begun preparing the next issue on “Joyce and Opera” for publication. It too will be a double issue, and in addition to an impressive array of articles and notes, will contain some wonderful figures and illustrations. I guarantee that the artwork alone will be worth the price of a subscription. The JJQ website now offers expanded indexes of recent issues, and we are working to produce new ones as quickly as possible. Beginning with the current issue, you will now be able to find the “Checklist” online, providing students, teachers, and scholars access to this valuable resource. Over time, we hope this will become the most comprehensive index of Joyce-related materials available either in print or on the web. I also anticipate adding the first volume of the JJQ to our online electronic archive within the next month or two, and by the time we reach Trieste in June, we will be ready formally to unveil this exciting project. Please stop by the website at http:// www.utulsa.edu/JJoyceQtrly, and let us know what you think. Sean Latham University of Tulsa