Tropic of Cancer Summary
Henry Miller

Biography EssayHenry Miller was a leading example of a special kind of writer who is essentially seer and prophet, whose immediate ancestor was Rimbaud, and whose leading exponent was D. H. Lawrence. ... Read more

No American writer in Paris during the thirties captured so completely the experience of his generation as Henry Miller. He made Paris his permanent residence in 1930, and he stayed until 1939, absorb... Read more

In the following essay, Hutchison discusses the publishing history of Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller, in the context of the American legal system's censorship of “obscene” mater... Read more

Critical Essay by Paul R. Jackson In the opening pages of Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller announces the extravagant anti-art that will be his theme. Beyond the lice and the cancer of time, beyond hope... Read more

Williams is an English educator and critic. In the following excerpt, she criticizes Kate Millett's influential attack on Henry Miller's misogyny as theoretically naive and ineffectual. ... Read more

Kauffmann is an American dramatist, critic, and educator. In the following essay, which was written shortly after the first legal publication of Tropic of Cancer in the United States, he assesses Mill... Read more

Hassan is an Egyptian-born American critic and educator who has written numerous books on modernist and post-modernist literature, including Radical Innocence: The Contemporary American Novel (1961) a... Read more

Wickes is a Belgian-born American critic and educator. In the following excerpt from his study of American expatriate writers of the 1920s and 30s, he discusses the crucial influence that the avant-ga... Read more

In the following excerpt, Lewis provides an overview of the major themes of Tropic of Cancer. Henry Miller's first book, Tropic of Cancer, remains startling and unique. The radiant spirit an... Read more