My wars are laid away in books : the life of Emily Dickinson

Authors:Alfred Habegger (Author), Cairns Collection of American Women Writers

Summary:"Alfred Habegger presents the first thorough account of Dickinson's growth - a story of genius in the process of formation and then in the act of overwhelming production." "Building on the work of former and contemporary scholars, My Wars Are Laid Away in Books brings to light a wide range of new material from legal archives, congregational records, contemporary women's writing, and previously unpublished fragments of Dickinson's own letters. Habegger discovers the best available answers to the pressing questions about the poet: Was she lesbian? Who was the person she evidently loved? Why did she refuse to publish, and why was this refusal so integral an aspect of her work? Habegger also illuminates many of the essential connections in Dickinson's story: between the decay of doctrinal Protestantism and the emergence of her riddling lyric vision; between her father's political isolation after the Whig Party's collapse and her private poetic vocation; between her frustrated quest for human intimacy and the tuning of her uniquely seductive voice."--Jacket

Print Book, English, 2001

Edition:1st ed View all formats and editions

Publisher: Random House, New York, 2001

Genre:Biography

Physical Description:xvii, 764 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

ISBN:

9780679449867, 9780812966015, 0679449868, 0812966015

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:46421835

Subjects:

1800-1899

Biographies

Biography