Anaïs Nin in Context by Francisco José Cortés Vieco

Anaïs Nin in Context by Francisco José Cortés Vieco

Anaïs 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, Anaïs 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.

Francisco José Cortés 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-Alcalá University, 2016; Peter Lang, 2021) and articles on Anaïs 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 Anaïs Nin (2017), contributor of prefaces to Nin's novels, and deputy editor-in-chief of the journal World and Word.

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ISBN 13	9781009645249
Title	Anaïs Nin in Context
Author	Francisco José Cortés Vieco
Series	Literature In Context
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2026-09-30
Number of pages	0
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