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The Cambridge companion to Emily Dickinson

Author: Wendy Martin
Publisher: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Series: Cambridge companions to literature.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
Emily Dickinson, one of the most important American poets of the nineteenth century, remains an intriguing and fascinating writer. This book includes eleven new essays by accomplished Dickinson scholars. They cover Dickinson's biography, publication history, poetic themes and strategies, and her historical and cultural contexts. As a woman poet, Dickinson's literary persona has become incredibly resonant in the  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Handbooks, manuals, etc
Guides, manuels, etc
Named Person: Emily Dickinson; Emily Dickinson; Emily Dickinson; Emily Dickinson
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Wendy Martin
ISBN: 0521806445 9780521806442 0521001188 9780521001182
OCLC Number: 49760627
Description: xvii, 248 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The Emily Dickinson wars / Betsy Erkkila --
Emily Dickinson and the American South / Christopher Benfey --
Susan and Emily Dickinson: their lives, in letters / Martha Nell Smith --
Emily Dickinson and poetic strategy / Wendy Barker --
Emily Dickinson's existential dramas / Fred D. White --
Performances of gender in Dickinson's poetry / Suzanne Juhasz and Cristanne Miller --
Emily Dickinson: being in the body / Shira Wolosky --
Emily Dickinson and the gothic in Fascicle 16 / Daneen Wardrop --
Emily Dickinson and popular culture / David S. Reynolds --
Emily Dickinson and class / Domhnall Mitchell --
Emily Dickinson and her American women poet peers / Paula Bernat Bennett.
Series Title: Cambridge companions to literature.
Other Titles: Companion to Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
Responsibility: edited by Wendy Martin.
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Abstract:

Emily Dickinson, one of the most important American poets of the nineteenth century, remains an intriguing and fascinating writer. This book includes eleven new essays by accomplished Dickinson scholars. They cover Dickinson's biography, publication history, poetic themes and strategies, and her historical and cultural contexts. As a woman poet, Dickinson's literary persona has become incredibly resonant in the popular imagination. She has been portrayed as singular, enigmatic, and even eccentric. At the same time, Dickinson is widely acknowledged as one of the founders of American poetry, an innovative pre-modernist poet as well as a rebellious and courageous woman. This volume introduces readers to a variety of critical responses to Dickinson's poetry and life, and provides several valuable tools, including a chronology and suggestions for further reading.

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