Anais Nin in Context
Will be published approx. on 30. September 2026
Book
Hardback
406 pages
978-1-009-64524-9 (ISBN)
Description
Anais Nin in Context restores Nin as a central voice of twentieth-century literature. Best known for her diaries and erotica, Nin was also an experimental novelist, essayist, and cultural figure, whose work resonates with questions of sexuality, creativity, and identity. This volume assembles an international team of scholars to explore Nin's life and legacy across seven thematic sections: life and genres; interpersonal and artistic influences; subjectivity and the mind; gender and women's rights; geographical settings; sociocultural contexts; and reception. Together, the thirty-four essays situate Nin within artistic circles from Paris to New York, examine her engagement with feminism and psychoanalysis, and trace her enduring afterlife in film, graphic novels, and contemporary scholarship. Accessible yet rigorous, Anais Nin in Context will serve students, researchers, and readers eager to reassess Nin's contributions and understand her as a cosmopolitan writer, whose voice continues to speak to issues pertaining to the woman artist.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
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ISBN-13
978-1-009-64524-9 (9781009645249)
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Francisco Jose Cortes Vieco, Associate Professor of English Literature at Complutense University of Madrid, holds two Ph.D.s in Gender and Literary Studies, both with outstanding thesis awards. A Harvard Visiting Fellow (2018), he has published over fifty works, including two monographs on women's literature (Franklin-Institute-Alcala University, 2016; Peter Lang, 2021) and articles on Anais Nin. Anita Jarczok, Assistant Professor at the University of Bielsko-Biala with a Ph.D. from University of Limerick, is the author of Writing an Icon: Celebrity Culture and the Invention of Anais Nin (2017), contributor of prefaces to Nin's novels, and deputy editor-in-chief of the journal World and Word.
Content
List of Figures; List of Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and Notes; Introduction Francisco Jose Cortes Vieco and Anita Jarczok; Part I. Life and Genres: 1. Biography Benjamin Franklin V.; 2. The Diary Anita Jarczok; 3. Fiction Diane Richard-Allerdyce; 4. Letters: 'Dear Anais' Meritxell Simon-Martin; 5. Erotic/a Nina Attwood; 6. Nin's Illness and Healthcare Francisco Jose Cortes Vieco; Part II. Interpersonal and Artistic Engagements: 7. Other Diarists Anita Jarczok; 8. Modernism Helen Tookey; 9. Surrealism Josie Cray; 10. D. H. Lawrence Buxi Duan; 11. The Femme Fatale and June Ida Theren; 12. Nin's Cinematic Vision David Seed; Part III. Mind and Subjectivity: 13. Nin's Prescient Pathways into Brain Science Suzanne Nalbantian; 14. Myth and Nin's Mythopoetics Clara Oropeza; 15. Psychology of Creativity Gwenda Koo; 16. Psychoanalysis Michael L. Shuman; Part IV. Gender and Women's Rights: 17. Reproductive Politics and Nin's Personal Choice Francisco Jose Cortes Vieco; 18. Mid-century Feminism Andrew Milne; 19. Sex and Sex Writing Kim Krizan; 20. Dress and Femininity Gwendolyn M. Michel; Part V. Geographical Contexts: 21. Paris Jessica Widner; 22. The Mediterranean Simon Dubois Boucheraud; 23. New York Cyrus R. K. Patell; 24. The Far East Pinky Chung-Man Lui; Part VI. Sociocultural Contexts: 25. Independent Presses and Bookshops Yuko Yaguchi; 26. Nin and the US Publishing Industry Paul Herron; 27. LSD and Nin's Psychedelic Experience Zoe Dubus and Pierre Leger; 28. Double Life, Triple Jeopardy: Nin and the Law Susan Stevens Dunn; 29. Nin's Filmmaking Collaborations Alice L. Hutchison; Part VII. Reception and Creative Afterlife: 30. Translation of Nin's Works into Spanish and Catalan Sofia Monzon; 31. Filmic Variations on Nin Sylvie Blum-Reid; 32. Critical Reception: 1990s-Present Wayne E. Arnold; 33. Posthumous Diagnoses of Nin Heidi Toivonen; 34. Nin and Her Graphic Self Amy D. Wells and Leonie Bischoff; Bibliography; Index.