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A historical guide to Emily Dickinson

One of America's most celebrated women, Emily Dickinson was virtually unpublished in her own time and unknown to the public at large. Today her poetry is commonly anthologized and widely praised for its precision, its intensity, its depth and beauty. Dickinson's life and work, however, remain in important ways mysterious. This collection of essays, all of them previously unpublished, represent the best of contemporary scholarship and points the way toward exciting new directions for the future. The volume includes a biographical essay that covers some of the major turning points in the poet's
eBook, English, 2004
Oxford University Press, New York, 2004
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (303 pages) : illustrations
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Introduction1: Vivian R. Pollak and Marianne Noble: Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886: A Brief Biography2: Emily Dickinson in Her Time3: Jane Donahue Eberwein: "Is Immortality True?": Salvaging Faith in an Age of Upheavals4: Shira Wolosky: History, Language, and God: Emily Dickinson's War Poetry5: Betsy Erkkila: Dickinson and the Art of Politics6: Cheryl Walker: Dickinson in Context: Nineteenth-Century American Women Poets7: Cristanne Miller: The Sound of Shifting Paradigms, or Hearing Dickinson in the Twenty-First CenturyIllustrated ChronologyJonathan Morse: Bibliographical EssayContributors
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