How Long to Read Crimes Against Fecundity

How Long Does it Take to Read Crimes Against Fecundity?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 19 minutes to read Crimes Against Fecundity by Mary Lowe-Evans

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Population control was endlessly discussed during Joyce's lifetime, and he was as acutely aware of western civilization's restrictions on artistic and spiritual freedom as on physical fecundity. Lowe-Evans's book explores the specific influence of this controversial debate on Joyce's works, from Dubliners to Finnegans Wake, as well as that of other key historical events such as the Great Famine, the Malthusian doctrine, the international birth control movement, the Catholic church, and postwar populationism. As Michel Foucault observed, "one of the great innovations in techniques of power in the eighteenth century was the emergence of 'population' as an economic and political problem." Similarly, Lowe-Evans examines Joyce's works as the product of countless rhetorical pressures and trends, including histories of Ireland, the Irish Homestead, and reports of the obscenity trial of Margaret Sanger. Joyce once wrote his good friend Frank Budgen that the idea underlying the famous "Oxen of the Sun" chapter in Ulysses (set in a maternity hospital) was "the crime committed against fecundity by sterilizing the act of coition." Drawing upon this and numerous other instances, Lowe-Evans demonstrates how Foucault's theory of the deployment of sexuality is borne out both in Joyce's work and in the debates that helped to produce it. In Crimes Against Fecundity, Lowe-Evans reveals new and fascinating aspect of this great writer·s work, which will be of great interest not only to literary theorists and Joyceans but to literary scholars in general.

How long is Crimes Against Fecundity?

Crimes Against Fecundity by Mary Lowe-Evans is 136 pages long, and a total of 34,816 words.

This makes it 46% the length of the average book. It also has 43% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Crimes Against Fecundity Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 10 minutes to read Crimes Against Fecundity aloud.

What Reading Level is Crimes Against Fecundity?

Crimes Against Fecundity is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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