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The American writer Henry Miller's critical reputation--if not his popular readership- has been in eclipse at least since Kate Millett's blistering critique in Sexual Politics, her landmark 1970 study of misogyny in literature and art. Even a Miller fan like the acclaimed Scottish writer John Burnside finds Miller's "sex books"- including The Rosy Crucifixion, The Tropic of Cancer, and The Tropic of Capricorn- "boring and embarrassing." But Burnside says that Miller's notorious image as a "pornographer and woman hater" has hidden his vital, true importance- his anarchist sensibility and the way it shows us how, by fleeing from conformity of all kinds, we may be able to save ourselves from the "air-conditioned nightmare" of the modern world.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

• Full title: On Henry Miller
• Author: John Burnside
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 208
• EAN: 9780691166872
• ISBN: 9780691166872
• ID: 18210073
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Weight: 256 g
• Dimensions: 191 × 121 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 13. February 2018

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