Renegade : Henry Miller and the making of Tropic of Cancer / Frederick Turner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turner, Frederick W., 1937-

Series:

Icons of America.

Icons of America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Miller, Henry, 1891-1980--Criticism and interpretation.

Miller, Henry.

Miller, Henry, 1891-1980. Tropic of Cancer.

Politics and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Politics and literature.

Authors and publishers--United States--History--20th century.

Authors and publishers.

Publishers and publishing--United States--History--20th century.

Publishers and publishing.

Censorship--United States--History--20th century.

Censorship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Though branded as pornography for its graphic language and explicit sexuality, Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer is far more than a work that tested American censorship laws. In this riveting book, published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Tropic of Cancer's initial U.S. release, Frederick Turner investigates Miller's unconventional novel, its tumultuous publishing history, and its unique place in American letters.Written in the slums of a foreign city by a man who was an utter literary failure in his homeland, Tropic of Cancer was published in 1934 by a pornographer in Paris, but soon banned in the United States. Not until 1961, when Grove Press triumphed over the censors, did Miller's book appear in American bookstores. Turner argues that Tropic of Cancer is "lawless, violent, colorful, misogynistic, anarchical, bigoted, and shaped by the same forces that shaped the nation." Further, the novel draws on more than two centuries of New World history, folklore, and popular culture in ways never attempted before. How Henry Miller, outcast and renegade, came to understand what literary dynamite he had within him, how he learned to sound his "war whoop" over the roofs of the world, is the subject of Turner's revelatory study.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

"Fuck Everything!"

Slaughterhouse

A Great Beast

Folklore Of The Conquest

Twain

Just A Brooklyn Boy

Beginning The Streets Of Sorrow

The World Of Sex

Talk

Entering The Slaughterhouse

Manhattan Monologist

Cosmodemonic

She

Exile

Where The Writers Went

The Avant-Garde

Hunger

June

An Apache

Villa Seurat

What She Gave

1934

Form

The Grounds Of Great Offense

A New World

Coda

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613382214

9781283382212

1283382210

9780300167313

0300167318

OCLC:

923597140