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Zusatztext Morgan expertly guides readers through the history of Dickinson criticism and provides them with key insights that help illuminate the most pertinent issues and recurring debates that have shaped and continue to shape Dickinson’s reputation. Informationen zum Autor Victoria N. Morgan is an expert in Dickinson and nineteenth-century literature. Author of Emily Dickinson and Hymn Culture , she has taught at the Universities of Liverpool and East Anglia, UK. Klappentext Taking readers through the various stages of criticism of Emily Dickinson's poetry, this guide identifies both the essential critical texts and the key debates within them. The texts chosen for discussion represent the canonical readings which have typically shaped the area of Dickinson studies throughout the twentieth- and twenty-first century and provide a lens through which to view current critical trends. Chapters focus on style and meaning, gender and sexuality, history and race, religion and hymn culture, and performance and popular culture. In all, this guide serves as a user-friendly reference tool to the vast body of criticism on Dickinson to date by suggesting formative starting points and underlining essential critical highlights. It provides students and scholars of Dickinson with a sense of where these critical texts can be placed in relation to one another, as well as an understanding of pivotal moments within the history of reception of Dickinson from late nineteenth-century reviews up to some of the definitive critical interventions of the twenty-first century. Vorwort Assisting readers of Emily Dickinson’s poetry by taking them through the various stages of criticism on her work, this book identifies and introduces both the essential critical texts and the key debates within them. Zusammenfassung Taking readers through the various stages of criticism of Emily Dickinson's poetry, this guide identifies both the essential critical texts and the key debates within them. The texts chosen for discussion represent the canonical readings which have typically shaped the area of Dickinson studies throughout the twentieth- and twenty-first century and provide a lens through which to view current critical trends. Chapters focus on style and meaning, gender and sexuality, history and race, religion and hymn culture, and performance and popular culture. In all, this guide serves as a user-friendly reference tool to the vast body of criticism on Dickinson to date by suggesting formative starting points and underlining essential critical highlights. It provides students and scholars of Dickinson with a sense of where these critical texts can be placed in relation to one another, as well as an understanding of pivotal moments within the history of reception of Dickinson from late nineteenth-century reviews up to some of the definitive critical interventions of the twenty-first century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction1 Biographies and publication 1.1 Biographers1.2 Dickinson as poet: Self-publication and early publication2. Style and Meaning 2.1 Early criticism2.2 Later revaluations3 The female tradition, gender and sexuality3.1 The female tradition 3.2 Writing the body3.3 Queering Dickinson4 History, Civil War and race 4.1 Historicizing Dickinson4.2 The US Civil War4.3 Dickinson, ethnicity and race5 Religion and hymn culture5.1 Rejecting orthodoxy5.2 Religion and aesthetics 5.3 Dickinson and hymnody6 Performance and reception6.1 Performance in Dickinson’s Poetry 6.2 Dickinson and popular Culture 6.3 Digital Dickinson and international reception Conclusion Bibliography Index...
