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Renegade Henry Miller and the making of Tropic of Cancer

"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. r...

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Main Author: Turner, Frederick W., 1937-
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2011.
Series: Icons of America
Subjects:
Miller, Henry, > 1891-1980 > Criticism and interpretation.
Miller, Henry, > 1891-1980. > Tropic of cancer.
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.
Table of 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.

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