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A presentation of the modern metropolis as the scene of Miller’s novels. A definition of the man-of-the-city novel. The view upon the big city by George Simmel and Walter Benjamin and the interpretations by Baudelaire.
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Notes
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See Chap. 5.
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In Henry Miller, Emerson, and the Divided Self, in Critical Essays on Henry Miller, 1992, Paul R. Jackson gives a detailed account on Emerson as a general source of inspiration for Miller. For further on Emerson as inspiration for Miller, see Chap. 4.
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Simmel on Culture. Selected Writings. Ed. by David Frisby and Mike Featherstone. London, 2000, p. 175.
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Walter Benjamin: The Arcades Project (1999 edition), p. 446.
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The Structure of Modern Poetry from the Mid-nineteenth Century to the Mid-twentieth Century, 1974.
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Poems of Baudelaire: A Translation of “Les Fleurs du Mal”, Translated by Roy Campbell, 1952.
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Jensen, F. (2019). Miller and the Modern City. In: Henry Miller and Modernism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33165-8_2
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