“Scudding in Towards Dublin”: Joyce Studies and the Online Mapping Dubliners Project

Abstract

In this chapter, Jasmine Mulliken uses digital technology to help readers explore more fully than ever the historical and geographical references in Dubliners. Mulliken examines the triumphs as well as the limitations of her online Mapping Dubliners Project, a project she developed in 2010 to provide readers with an interactive map of every location and route referenced and represented in Joyce’s work. She suggests that the visual nature of the cartographic medium of her project can inspire new historical readings of Joyce’s stories and can generate digital-age discussion about Joyce’s work in the twenty-first century. To be sure, her chapter anticipates a vision of digital humanities that “both reveres the past and celebrates current and future technological literary exploration.”