Three issues of the magazine containing the serial were seized and burned by the United States Post Office before a full-scale legal confrontation took place over episode thirteen. The later and longer of these episodes extended over as many as four issues each. Publication commenced with the first episode and reached a single instalment of the fourteenth. The Little Review, based in New York, published Ulysses irregularly across twenty-two issues from March 1918 to August 1920. Ulysses was first published in serial form in two magazines. it offers a brief, contextualized history of the academic work produced on Ulysses since the end of Joyce’s life. It then considers a number of significant ways in which Ulysses was read in the first two decades of its existence. This essay first traces the precondition of such reading: the worldly fortunes of Joyce’s text itself. That history is known to us mainly through acts of writing, including reviews and essays, letters and diary entries. A reception history is centrally a history of reading.
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