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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2012
      08 March 2007
      ISBN:
      9780511611025
      9780521856706
      9780521672702
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511611025
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.39kg, 160 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.24kg, 160 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, English Literature: General Interest
      Series:
      Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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    Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, English Literature: General Interest
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    Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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    Book description

    Emily Dickinson is best known as an intensely private, even reclusive writer. Yet the way she has been mythologised has meant her work is often misunderstood. This introduction delves behind the myth to present a poet who was deeply engaged with the issues of her day. In a lucid and elegant style, the book places her life and work in the historical context of the Civil War, the suffrage movement, and the rapid industrialisation of the United States. Wendy Martin explores the ways in which Dickinson's personal struggles with romantic love, religious faith, friendship and community shape her poetry. The complex publication history of her works, as well as their reception, is teased out, and a guide to further reading is included. Dickinson emerges not only as one of America's finest poets, but also as a fiercely independent intellect and an original talent writing poetry far ahead of her time.

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    Contents

    Contents
    References
    Guide to further reading
    Guide to further reading
    Bianchi, Martha Dickinson, The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930.
    Bloom, Harold (ed.), Modern Critical Views: Emily Dickinson,New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1985.
    Cady, Edwin H. and Budd, Louis J. (eds.), OnDickinson: The Best From American Literature, Durham: Duke University Press, 1990.
    Eberwein, Jane Donahue (ed.), An Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998.
    Eberwein, Jane Donahue, Dickinson: Strategies of Limitation, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1985.
    Farr, Judith and Carter, Louise, The Gardens of Emily Dickinson, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.
    Franklin, Ralph William, The Editing of Emily Dickinson: A Reconsideration, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1967.
    Fuss, Diana, The Sense of an Interior: Four Writers and the Rooms That Shaped Them, New York: Routledge, 2004.
    Gilbert, Sandra M. and Gubar, Susan, The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979.
    Grabher, Gudrun, Hagenbuchle, Roland, and Miller, Cristanne (eds.), The Emily Dickinson Handbook, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998.
    Habegger, Alfred, My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson, New York: Modern Library, 2002.
    Hart, Ellen Louise and Smith, Martha Nell (eds.), Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson, Ashfield, MA: Paris Press, 1998.
    Heginbotham, Eleanor Elson, Reading the Fascicles of Emily Dickinson: Dwelling in Possibilities, Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2003.
    Johnson, Thomas (ed.), The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, University Press, 1960.
    Johnson, Thomas, Emily Dickinson: An Interpretive Biography, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1955.
    Johnson, Thomas H. (ed.), Emily Dickinson: Selected Letters, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1986.
    Johnson, Thomas (ed.), The Poems of Emily Dickinson, 3 vols., Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1951.
    Juhasz, Suzanne (ed.), Feminist Critics Read Emily Dickinson, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983.
    Juhasz, Suzanne, The Undiscovered Continent: Emily Dickinson and the Space of the Mind, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983.
    Juhasz, Suzanne and Miller, Cristanne (eds.), Emily Dickinson: A Celebration for Readers, New York: Gordon and Breach, 1989.
    Keller, Karl, The Only Kangaroo among the Beauty: Emily Dickinson and America, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979.
    Leyda, Jay, The Years and Hours of Emily Dickinson, 2 vols., New Haven: Yale University Press, 1960.
    Longsworth, Polly, Austinand Mabel: The Amherst Affair and Love Letters of Austin Dickinson and Mabel Loomis Todd, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983.
    Loving, Jerome, Emily Dickinson: The Poet on the Second Story, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
    Lubbers, Klaus, Emily Dickinson: The Critical Revolution, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1968.
    Martin, Wendy, An American Triptych, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984.
    Martin, Wendy (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinson, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
    Messmer, Marietta, A Vice for Voices: Reading Emily Dickinson's Correspondence, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001.
    Miller, Cristanne, Emily Dickinson: A Poet's Grammar, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987.
    Pollak, Vivian R., A Poet's Parents: The Courtship Letters of Emily Norcross and Edward Dickinson, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
    Armand, Barton LeviSt, Emily Dickinson and Her Culture: The Soul's Society, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.
    Sewall, Richard B., The Life of Emily Dickinson, 2 vols., New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974.
    Smith, Robert McClure, The Seductions of Emily Dickinson, Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1996.
    Stocks, Kenneth, Emily Dickinson and the Modern Consciousness: A Poet of Our Time, New York: St Martin's Press, 1988.
    Weisbuch, Robert, Emily Dickinson's Poetry, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972.
    Whicher, George Frisbie, This Was a Poet: A Critical Biography of Emily Dickinson, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938.
    Wolff, Cynthia Griffin, Emily Dickinson, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986.
    Wolosky, Shira, Emily Dickinson: A Voice of War, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984.

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