The Double Life of Issy Earwicker
Christian Hein
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The Double Life of Issy Earwicker

Victorian Values in the Mirror of Finnegans Wake

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James Joyce s sad and dreamy Issy Earwicker has gone almost unnoticed by researchers, although she is one of the most interesting characters of the Finnegans Wake. Her innocent longing for romantic love make her the very personifi cation of Victorian values. But Issy leads a double life, for through her mirror she takes on the alternative identity of an independent woman claiming the same sexual freedom which men are exclusively granted. Through her doubling Issy oscillates between the two extremes of Victorian morality and modern emancipation making her a révenant between obsolete tradition ...