Margot Backus describes James Joyce in this way: “an avid newspaper reader and occasional journalist became fixated, in his youth: English Essay, MU, Ireland

Margot Backus describes James Joyce in this way: “an avid newspaper reader and occasional journalist became fixated, in his youth, on a series of newspaper scandals”. Many of these scandals centered on sex, whether sexual identities or clandestine relationships in the period. Discuss sexual transgression in Ulysses, focusing your answer on three relevant episodes in the book and making reference to secondary reading.