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 Contributors
Acknowledgments
Chronology

Foreword
Lou Renza, Dartmouth College, USA

Abbreviations

Introduction
Indrek Männiste, University of Tartu, Estonia, and James M. Decker, Illinois Central College, USA

Henry Miller’s Inhuman Philosophy
Indrek Männiste, University of Tartu, Estonia

“The agonizing gutter of my past”: Henry Miller, Conversion, and the Trauma of the Modern
James M. Decker, Illinois Central College, USA

When Henry Miller Left for Tibet
Paul Jahshan, Notre Dame University, Lebanon

The Religiosity of Henry Miller
Edward Abplanalp, Illinois Central College, USA

Henry Miller and Morality
Guy Stevenson, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

Tropic Of Cancer: Word Becoming Flesh
Ondrej Skovajsa, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

“A dirty book worth reading”: Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer and the Feminist Backlash
Anna Lillios, University of Central Florida, USA

Henry Miller: Obscene Other of the Law
Rob Herian, University of London, UK

The Ecstatic Psychotic: Henry Miller via Jacques Lacan
Hamish Jackson, University of East Anglia, UK

Big Sur and Walden: Henry Miller’s Practical Transcendentalism
Eric Lehman, University of Bridgeport, USA

A Surrealist Duet: Word and Image in Into the Night Life with Henry Miller and Bezalel Schatz
Sarah Garland, University of East Anglia, UK

Cartography Of The Obscene
Jeff Bursey, essayist and author of Verbatim: A Novel

Dispossessed Sexual Politics: Henry Miller’s Anarchism Qua Kate Millett And Ursula K. Le Guin
James Gifford, Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA

Miller’s Paris
Finn Jensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Henry Miller’s Titillating Words
Katy Masuga, Skidmore College, France

Bibliography
Index