Deming, Robert H.
James Joyce: The Critical Heritage
Routledge Kegan & Paul, 1986. The Critical Heritage Series.  071006747X  821 pages.
Set is bound in dark blue cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spines. Books and dust jackets are well preserved.
Volume I: 1902-1927; Volume II: 1928-1941. Joyce's writing has provoked an immense quantity of critical response. Professor Deming has selected for these two volumes as many  divergent points of views as possible to provide a near-complete spectrum of the contemporary reaction to Joyce. These criticisms and opinions are chiefly concerned with Joyce's complex "intellectual machinery" and illustrate the varying degree of diffidence with which critics and writers treated Joyce. They also show the extent to which Joyce himself planned and directed his own critical reputation.