Historical Guide to Emily Dickinson

Name: Historical Guide to Emily Dickinson
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ISBN: 9780195151350

ISBN-10: 0195151356

ISBN-13: 9780195151350

Edition: 2004

Authors: Vivian R. Pollak

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One of America's most celebrated women, Emily Dickinson was virtually unpublished in her own time and unknown to the public at large.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 This collection of essays, all of them previously unpublished, represent the best of contemporary scholarship and points the way toward exciting new directions for the future.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 life, especially those emphasized by her letters. Other essays discuss Dickinson's religious…

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List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/29/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 8.23" wide x 5.43" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English



Introduction



Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886: A Brief Biography



"Is Immorality True?": Salvaging Faith in an Age of Upheavals



Public and Private in Dickinson's War Poetry



Dickinson and the Art of Politics



Dickinson in Context: Nineteenth-Century American Women Poets



The Sound of Shifting Paradigms, or Hearing Dickinson in the Twenty-First Century



Illustrated Chronology


Bibliographical Essay



Contributors


Credits


Index