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

Published New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 244 pages) Series Icons of America Icons of America. Contents Cover -- Contents -- PART ONE -- “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 -- PART TWO -- 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 AcknowledgmentsIndex -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z 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."-- Provided by publisher "How Henry Miller, renegade and failed writer, came to understand what literary dynamite he had in him and, drawing on two centuries of New World history, folklore, and popular culture, sent his "war whoop" out over the roofs of the world"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Miller, Henry, 1891-1980 -- Criticism and interpretation Miller, Henry, 1891-1980. Tropic of cancer SUBJECT Miller, Henry, 1891-1980 fast Miller, Henry. idszbz Tropic of Cancer (Miller, Henry) fast Subject Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century Authors and publishers -- United States -- History -- 20th century Publishers and publishing -- United States -- History -- 20th century Censorship -- United States -- History -- 20th century LITERARY CRITICISM -- Books & Reading. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century. Authors and publishers Censorship Politics and literature Publishers and publishing Werk. United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2011019531 ISBN 9780300167313 0300167318 1283382210 9781283382212 9786613382214 6613382213

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