This Norton Critical Edition includes:

• Hans Walter Gabler’s acclaimed text of Joyce’s 1916 coming-of-age novel, accompanied by Gabler’s introduction and textual notes.
• Preface and revised and expanded explanatory annotations by John Paul Riquelme.
• Other writings by James Joyce closely related to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, new to the Second Edition.
• Nine illustrations
• “Backgrounds and Contexts” including a wealth of materials, topically organised: “Political Nationalism: Irish History, 1798–1916”, “The Irish Literary and Cultural Revival”, “Religion” and “Aesthetic Backgrounds”.
• Twelve major critical assessments, seven of them new to the Second Edition.
• A chronology and a selected bibliography.
  

About the Series

Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format—annotated text, contexts and criticism—helps students to better understand, analyse and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.