The dearest of cemeteries: European intertexts in Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer

Garland, Sarah (2010) The dearest of cemeteries: European intertexts in Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer. European Journal of American Culture, 29 (3). pp. 197-215.

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Abstract

This essay reads Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer (1934) as the trace of a belated expatriate moment that forms an American literary nexus by drawing together a number of provocative European artistic contexts. Miller's relationship to the rhetoric of the manifesto is discussed, as is the creation of a powerful literary persona and narrating voice from the traces of a tissue of intertextual quotations. Miller draws on contemporary tropes of death, decadence and last things, and in the process, I argue, brings late Romantic and early twentieth-century texts from Nietzsche, Spengler, Strindberg, Goethe, Joyce, lie Faure and Giovanni Papini together to articulate a late apocalyptic modernism.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sdg 3 - good health and well-being ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/good_health_and_well_being
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of American Studies (former - to 2014)
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > American Studies
Depositing User:	Julia Sheldrake
Date Deposited:	13 Oct 2011 12:26
Last Modified:	28 Mar 2025 03:03
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/35008
DOI:	10.1386/ejac.29.3.197_1

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