Scholarly responses to Henry Miller's works have never been numerous and for many years Miller was not a fashionable writer for literary studies. In fact, there exist only three collections of essays concerning Henry Miller's oeuvre. Since these books appeared, a new generation of international Miller scholars has emerged, one that is re-energizing critical readings of this important American Modernist. Henry Miller: New Perspectives presents new essays on carefully chosen themes within Miller and his intellectual heritage to form the most authoritative collection ever published on this author.

Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgmentsChronologyForewordLou Renza, Dartmouth College, USAAbbreviationsIntroductionIndrek Männiste, University of Tartu, Estonia, and James M. Decker, Illinois Central College, USA Henry 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