Henry Miller

James M. Decker is Professor of English and Language Studies at Illinois Central College, USA. He is the author of Henry Miller and Narrative Form: Constructing the Self, Rejecting Modernity (2005) and Ideology (2003) and is the Editor of Nexus: The International Henry Miller Journal. Indrek Männiste is Lecturer at the Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia, and author of Henry Miller: The Inhuman Artist: A Philosophical Inquiry (2013).

• Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgmentsChronologyForewordLou Renza, Dartmouth College, USAAbbreviationsIntroductionIndrek Männiste, University of Tartu, Estonia, and James M. Decker, Illinois Central College, USAHenry Miller’s Inhuman PhilosophyIndrek Männiste, University of Tartu, Estonia“The agonizing gutter of my past”: Henry Miller, Conversion, and the Trauma of the ModernJames M. Decker, Illinois Central College, USAWhen Henry Miller Left for TibetPaul Jahshan, Notre Dame University, LebanonThe Religiosity of Henry MillerEdward Abplanalp, Illinois Central College, USAHenry Miller and MoralityGuy Stevenson, Goldsmiths, University of London, UKTropic Of Cancer: Word Becoming FleshOndrej Skovajsa, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic“A dirty book worth reading”: Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer and the Feminist BacklashAnna Lillios, University of Central Florida, USAHenry Miller: Obscene Other of the LawRob Herian, University of London, UKThe Ecstatic Psychotic: Henry Miller via Jacques LacanHamish Jackson, University of East Anglia, UKBig Sur and Walden: Henry Miller’s Practical TranscendentalismEric Lehman, University of Bridgeport, USAA Surrealist Duet: Word and Image in Into the Night Life with Henry Miller and Bezalel SchatzSarah Garland, University of East Anglia, UKCartography Of The ObsceneJeff Bursey, essayist and author of Verbatim: A NovelDispossessed Sexual Politics: Henry Miller’s Anarchism Qua Kate Millett And Ursula K. Le GuinJames Gifford, Fairleigh Dickinson University, USAMiller’s ParisFinn Jensen, University of Copenhagen, DenmarkHenry Miller’s Titillating WordsKaty Masuga, Skidmore College, FranceBibliographyIndex

[C]omprised of previously unpublished articles based on critical readings of Miller's work ... [Henry Miller: New Perspectives] stands as the first collection of its kind ... [The book] provides in-depth analysis on themes in Miller's writing, bringing a fresh approach with recent scholarship trends.