Birth-Mark Unsettling the Wilderness in American Literary History

Name: Birth-Mark Unsettling the Wilderness in American Literary History
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ISBN: 9780819562630

ISBN-10: 0819562637

ISBN-13: 9780819562630

Edition: 1993

Authors: Susan Howe

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Susan Howe approaches early American literature as pet and critic, blending scholarship with passionate commitment and unique view of her subject. The Birth-mark traces the collusive relationships among tradition, the constitution of critical editions, literary history and criticism, the institutionalized roles of poetry and prose, and the status of gender. Through an examination of the texts and editorial histories of Thomas Shepard's conversion narratives, the captivity narrative of Mary Rowlandson, and the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Howe reads our intellectual inheritance as a series of civil wars, where each text is a wilderness in which a strange and lawless author confronts…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publication date: 4/1/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.02" long x 0.56" tall
Weight: 0.682

Acclaimed poet Susan Howe, winner of the last Bollingen Prize, is the author of the seminal work, My Emily Dickinson.



Acknowledgments


Introduction


Submarginalia


Incloser


Quasi-marginalia


The Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson


These Flames and Generosities of the Hearts: Emily Dickinson and the Illogic of Sumptuary Values


Talisman Interview, with Edward Foster


Index