The
1921 US trial of James Joyce's novel
Ulysses concerned the publication of the
Nausicaa episode by the literary magazine
The Little Review, which was serializing the novel. Though not required to do so by law,
John Quinn, the lawyer for the defence, decided to produce three literary experts to attest to the literary merits of
Ulysses, as well as
The Little Reviews broader reputation. The first expert witness was
Philip Moeller, of the
Theatre Guild, who interpreted
Ulysses using the
Freudian method of unveiling the subconscious mind, which prompted one of the judges to ask him to "speak in a language that the court could understand". The next witness was
Scofield Thayer, editor of
The Dial, another literary magazine of the time, who "was forced to admit that if he had had the desire to publish
Ulysses he would have consulted a lawyer first—and not published it". This resulted in a far greater degree of freedom for publishing explicit sexual material in the United Kingdom. ==See also==