Emily Dickinson and the Religious Imagination

Informationen zum Autor Linda Freedman is the Keasbey Research Fellow in American Studies, Selwyn College, Cambridge. Klappentext This illuminating book is the first to consider Dickinson's religious imagery outside the dynamic of her personal faith and doubt. Zusammenfassung Anyone interested in Emily Dickinson! American religious culture or the affinities and tensions between literature and theology will find this book enlightening. It offers fresh close readings! unpacks a range of classical and biblical allusions! and develops nuanced theological contexts! showing how Dickinson's poetry mirrors and transforms religious ideas. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Dickinson and religion; 1. A word made flesh; 2. Beginning from the name; 3. Encounters with light; 4. Quest; 5. Sacrifice; 6. Resurrection, compound vision; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Linda Freedman, Linda (Selwyn College Freedman, Freedman Linda
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2011
• EAN: 9781107006171
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00617-1
• No. of pages: 222
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / General, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Religion: general, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: poetry and poets