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A historical guide to Emily Dickinson

Author: Vivian R Pollak
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2004.
Series: Historical guides to American authors.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
The essays presented here provide an overview of Emily Dickinson studies at the start of the 21st century. While locating the public Dickinson in relation to American political, social and literary history, this volume also remains faithful to the private particulars of her self-fashioned career.
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Named Person: Emily Dickinson; Emily Dickinson; Emily Dickinson
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Vivian R Pollak
ISBN: 0195151348 9780195151343 0195151356 9780195151350
OCLC Number: 51613894
Description: 303 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Introduction / Vivian R. Pollak --
Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886 : a brief biography / Vivian R. Pollak, Marianne Noble --
Dickinson in her time --
"Is immorality true?" : salvaging faith in an age of upheavals / Jane Donahue Eberwein --
Public and private in Dickinson's war poetry / Shira Wolosky --
Dickinson and the art of politics / Betsy Erkkila --
Dickinson in context : nineteenth-century American women poets / Cheryl Walker --
The sound of shifting paradigms, or, hearing Dickinson in the twenty-first century / Cristanne Miller.
Series Title: Historical guides to American authors.
Responsibility: edited by Vivian R. Pollak.
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The essays presented here provide an overview of Emily Dickinson studies at the start of the 21st century. While locating the public Dickinson in relation to American political, social and literary history, this volume also remains faithful to the private particulars of her self-fashioned career.

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