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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Finnerty, Páraic, 1974- Emily Dickinson's Shakespeare. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2006 (OCoLC)607718481 Online version: Finnerty, Páraic, 1974- Emily Dickinson's Shakespeare. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2006 (OCoLC)608658922 |
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Named Person: | Emily Dickinson; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; Emily Dickinson; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; Emily Dickinson; William Shakespeare; Emily Dickinson; William Shakespeare; Emily Dickinson; William Shakespeare |
Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Páraic Finnerty |
ISBN: | 1558495177 9781558495173 |
OCLC Number: | 61254018 |
Description: | viii, 267 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction : "Whose pencil-- here and there-- / Had notched the place that pleased him -- There's nothing wicked in Shakespeare, and if there is I don't want to know it" : advising women readers, Amherst's Shakespeare's Club, and Richard Henry Dana Sr. -- "I read a few words since I came home-- John Talbot's parting with his son, and Margaret's with Suffolk" : reading and performing Shakespeare, Fanny Kemble, and the Astor Place riot -- "Shakespeare was never accused of writing Bacon's works" : American Shakespeare criticism, Delia Bacon, James Russell Lowell, and Richard Grant White -- "He has had his future who has found Shakespeare" : American nationalism and the English dramatist -- "Pity me, however, I have finished Ramona. Would that like Shakespeare, it were just published!" : Shakespeare and women writers -- "Shakespeare always and forever" : Dickinson's circulation of the Bard -- "Then I settled down to a willingness for all the rest to go but William Shakespeare. Why need we Joseph read anything else but him" : Dickinson reading Antony and Cleopatra -- "Heard Othello at museum" : Junius Brutus Booth, Tommaso Salvini, and the performance of race -- "Hamlet wavered for all of us" : Dickinson and Shakespearean tragedy -- Conclusion : "Touch Shakespeare for me." |
Responsibility: | Páraic Finnerty. |
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Abstract:
How Dickinson's fascination with Shakespeare informed her life and her poetry.
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"This is an important work and not only for Dickinson scholars concerned with her relation to the construction of cultural capital in her own time.... Because the rise of cultural hierarchy in the U.S. is such a fertile topic, and Shakespeare of such general interest for it, Emily Dickinson's Shakespeare deserves to find a broad audience among scholars of nineteenth-century American culture." - Mary Loeffelholz, author of From School to Salon: Reading Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry" Read more...
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