Joyce's Creative Process and the Construction of Characters in Ulysses: Becoming the BloomsThis book is both a study of how James Joyce created two of the most iconic characters in literature Leopold Bloom and Marion Tweedy Bloom as well as a history of the genesis of Ulysses. From a genetic critical perspective, it explores the conception and evolution of the Blooms as fictional characters in the work's wide range of surviving notes and manuscripts. At the same time, it also chronicles the production of Ulysses from 1917 to its first