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A Handbook devoted to the American poet Emily Dickinson (1830-86) that explores form and genre, reception of her work, and the ways that Dickinson's life and writing intersected with important historical events such as the Civil War, slavery, the women's rights movement, and the growth of capitalism.
Sommario
- Introduction: A Poetry "Composed of Nows": Dickinson's Historical Context and Contemporary Relevance
- PART I. "Do they know that this is Amherst": Dickinson in Place
- 1: Lisa Brooks: Whose Native Place?: The Dickinsons and the Colonization of the Connecticut River Valley
- 2: Jane Donahue Eberwein: "Where congregations ne'er break up": Dickinsons and Amherst's First Church
- 3: Claire Nashar: "The pedigree of Honey": Class, Colony, and Politics in Amherst's "Bee Hive" and Dickinson's Bee Poems
- 4: Lori Merish: "Seam by Seam": Dickinson's Literary Labors
- 5: Jane H. Wald: A Short Biography of the Homestead and The Evergreens
- 6: Karen Sánchez-Eppler: "Except the smaller size": Aunt Emily's Poetry
- 7: Polly Longworth: The Death of Little Gib
- 8: Nan Wolverton: "The Wanderers came last Night": Dickinson and the Material Culture of Indigenous Basket Sellers
- Part II. "Essential Oils": Dickinson's Poetics and Compositional Practices
- 9: Ryan Cull: "Dragons--in the Crease--": Dickinson's Dangerous Lyricism
- 10: Kathryn R. Kent: Dickinson's Spinster Poetics
- 11: Paul Crumbley: The Letter Not Sent: Dickinson's Fascicles and the Poet's Place in the World
- 12: Judith Scholes: "My Business is to Love": Address and Affect in Dickinson's Circulated Poems
- 13: Cristanne Miller: Writing for Posterity: Editing, Evidence, and Sequence in Dickinson's Composition and Circulation of Poems
- 14: Marta L. Werner: The Material and Editorial Condition of Dickinson's "Master" Documents
- 15: Branka Arsic: Butterfly Tropics: Dickinson, the Archive, and Ethereal Poetics
- 16: Rae Armantrout: Dickinson's Influence on Recent American Poetry
- Part III. "You'll find the Music": Dickinson's Media Contexts
- 17: Mary Loeffelholz: "Yellow Noise": Information and Form in Dickinson's Intermedial Writing
- 18: Marianne Noble: "Say it Again! Saxon!": The Erotic Intimate Space of Reading
- 19: Maurice S. Lee: Dickinson Uncut: Reading and Not Reading in Print Culture
- 20: Páraic Finnerty: "On the wall of her own room hung framed portraits of Mrs. Browning, George Eliot and Carlyle": Dickinson's Heroes and Hero-Worship
- 21: Brigitte Fielder: Dickinson's Black Contexts
- 22: Michael C. Cohen: Learning to Write with Emily Dickinson: Poetry, Pedagogy, and Nineteenth-Century Girlhood
- 23: Midori Asahina, Nobuko Shimomura, and Masako Takeda: Looking Back on the Reception History of Dickinson in Japan
- 24: Gerard Holmes: "Discretion in the interval": Musical Improvisation and Dickinson's Manuscript Variations
- 25: Antoine Cazé: Dickinson Composed
- PART IV. "Such are the inlets of the mind--": Ways of Knowing and the World
- 26: Shira Wolosky: Linguistic Turns: Emersonian Figuralism and Dickinson's Biblical Contests
- 27: Benjamin Friedlander: Glory, Honor, Might, Majesty, Dominion, and Power: Reading Dickinson through Wilfred Owen
- 28: Jennifer Leader: "The Finite--furnished / With the Infinite--": Dickinson's Biblical Imaginations
- 29: Adalberto Müller: Imaginary Geography: Dickinson Latina
- 30: Christine Gerhardt: Dickinson's Garden Ecologies
- 31: Michelle Kohler: "You felt your Second": Dickinson and Nineteenth-Century Timekeeping
- 32: Renée Bergland: Dickinson Emergent: Natural Philosophy and the Postdisciplinary Manifold
- 33: Lesley Dill: "How ruthless are the gentle": The Art of Emily Dickinson and Lesley Dill
- PART V. Coda
- 34: Jed Deppman: Living and Dying with Emily Dickinson
Info autore
Cristanne Miller is SUNY Distinguished Professor and Edward H. Butler Professor at the University at Buffalo SUNY. She has published broadly on nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry. Her books on Dickinson include
Emily Dickinson: A Poet's Grammar (1987),
Reading in Time: Emily Dickinson in the Nineteenth Century (2012), and the edition
Emily Dickinson's Poems: As She Preserved Them (2016), winner of the MLA Best Scholarly Edition Prize. She serves on the editorial advisory board for the Emily Dickinson Archive and is founder and director of the Marianne Moore Digital Archive.
Karen Sánchez-Eppler is L. Stanton Williams 1941 Professor of American Studies and English at Amherst College and serves on the Board of Governors of the Emily Dickinson Museum. Her first book
Touching Liberty: Abolition, Feminism and the Politics of the Body (1993) included work on Dickinson.
Dependent States: The Child's Part in Nineteenth-Century American Culture (2005) initiated her turn to childhood studies. She is one of the founding co-editors of
The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth and past President of C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists.
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A Handbook devoted to the American poet Emily Dickinson (1830-86) that explores form and genre, reception of her work, and the ways that Dickinson's life and writing intersected with important historical events such as the Civil War, slavery, the women's rights movement, and the growth of capitalism.
