Based on the author's thesis (State University of New York at Buffalo).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-270) and index.
1. Friedrich Schlegel's Theory of the Fragment -- 2. A History of the Sublime -- 3. Gender and Genre in Aristophanes -- 4. The Romantic Novel: Lucinde -- 5. From Addressing to Cross-Dressing: Some Afterthoughts on Lucinde -- 6. Joyce's Drama and the Conflicts of Realism -- 7. The Gender Politics of Joyce's Theory and Practice of Drama -- 8. "From the Sublime to the Ridiculous Is But a Step" -- 9. Medicine, Midwifery, and the Making of Childbirth: Horne's "Sublime Porte" in Ulysses -- 10. In the Wake of Criticism