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Emily Dickinson : monarch of perception

Author: Domhnall Mitchell
Publisher: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Domhnall Mitchell begins by focusing on three historical phenomena - the railroad, the Dickinson Homestead, and horticulture - and argues that poems about trains, home, and flowers engage with their meanings in ways that extend beyond the confines of the aesthetic. He shows how Dickinson's poems and letters reveal the full complexity of her position as a woman situated within a larger social and economic  Read more...
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Mitchell, Domhnall, 1962-
Emily Dickinson.
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2000
(OCoLC)606264587
Named Person: Emily Dickinson; Emily Dickinson; Emily Dickinson; Emily Dickinson; Emily Dickinson; Emily Dickinson
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Domhnall Mitchell
ISBN: 1558492267 9781558492264
OCLC Number: 41606234
Description: xvi, 352 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: The train, the father, his daughter, and her poem: "I like to see it lap the miles" --
"Homeless at home": the politics and poetics of domestic space --
Housing possibilities: Dickinson and the institution of culture --
"A little taste, time, and means": Dickinson and flowers --
Letters from home: Dickinson and publication --
Gathering buds: Dickinson's autograph anthologies --
Revising the script: Dickinson's manuscripts --
Cordoning off dissent: Dickinson's monologic voices --
Passages of meaning: "Safe in their alabaster chambers".
Responsibility: Domhnall Mitchell.

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"Domhnall Mitchell begins by focusing on three historical phenomena - the railroad, the Dickinson Homestead, and horticulture - and argues that poems about trains, home, and flowers engage with their meanings in ways that extend beyond the confines of the aesthetic. He shows how Dickinson's poems and letters reveal the full complexity of her position as a woman situated within a larger social and economic class."--BOOK JACKET.

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