Emily Dickinson and Her Culture The Soul''s Society

Klappentext Emily Dickinson has long been seen as a figure isolated from her contemporaries and insulated from her surrounding culture. This book attempts to place her texts in their cultural contexts. Zusammenfassung Emily Dickinson has long been seen as a figure isolated from her contemporaries and insulated from her surrounding culture. This book attempts to place her texts in their cultural contexts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Apologia: an art of assemblage; 1. Keepsakes: Mary Warner's scrapbook; 2. Dark parade: Dickinson, Sigourney, and the Victorian way of death; 3. Kindred spirits: Dickinson, Stowe, and the wars of romance; 4. Paradise deferred; Dickinson, Phelps, and the image of heaven; 5. American grotesque: Dickinson, God, and folk forms; 6. The earthly paradise: Dickinson, Ruskin, and Victorian aesthetics; 8. The art of peace: Dickinson, sunsets, and the sublime; Appendices; Notes; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Barton Levi St.armand, St Armand Barton Levi, Barton L. St Armand, Barton Levi St Armand
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 27.06.1986
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Fiction > Poetry, drama
• EAN: 9780521339780
• ISBN: 978-0-521-33978-0
• Pages: 384
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture; Cambridge Studies in American > 9