Henry Miller: New Perspectives

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.

Louis A. Renza is an Emeritus Professor of English at Dartmouth College, USA. He has published critical works on various US writers such as Poe, Twain, Sarah Orne Jewett, Stephen Crane, Henry James, Ernest Hemingway, and Wallace Stevens. Starting in the 1970s and through 2010, he taught a Dartmouth course on Bob Dylan's lyrics, directed a 2006 conference at Dartmouth College on Dylan, and has published an article on his works in the Winter, 2008 journal a/b (Auto/Biography) entitled "Bob Dylan's 116th Dream."

James M. Decker is Professor of English and Language Studies at Illinois Central College, USA. Author of Henry Miller and Narrative Form: Constructing the Self, Rejecting Modernity (Routledge, 2005) and Ideology (Palgrave, 2003), he edits Nexus: The International Henry Miller Journal. His articles have appeared in numerous journals, including College Literature, English, Studies in the Humanities, and Style.

Indrek Männiste is Lecturer at Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia, and author of Henry Miller: The Inhuman Artist: A Philosophical Inquiry (Bloomsbury, 2013).

Indrek Männiste is Researcher and Lecturer of Philosophy of Literature at the University of Tartu, Estonia, and author of Henry Miller: The Inhuman Artist: A Philosophical Inquiry (Bloomsbury, 2013).