..., however, Bennett inadvertently provided Joyce with more ma­ terial for his work, for after Bennett’s death Joyce revised the Mutt/Jute dialogue in the first chapter of Finnegans Wake, figuring Jute as Bennett and using his death from drinking contaminated water to suggest that the water cycle, like...

... of their kings and emperors who ruled by laws in systems as complex and enduring as those of the better-known Gauls, Huns, Saxons, and Jutes. (151–52) In setting his most obvious civil rights novel not in the oppressive, violent South but in a border state, Mayfield explores what happens in a city where...