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Title A companion to Emily Dickinson / edited by Martha Nell Smith and Mary Loeffelholz
Published Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., ©2008
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 523 pages) : illustrations
Series Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 49
Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 49.
Contents Architecture of the unseen / Aife Murray -- Fracturing a master narrative, reconstructing "Sister Sue" / Ingrid Satelmajer -- Public, private spheres : what reading Emily Dickinson's mail taught me about Civil Wars / Martha Nell Smith -- "Pretty much all real life" : the material world of the Dickinson family / Jane wald -- "Drums off the phantom battlements" : Dickinson's War poems in discursive context / Faith Barrett -- Eagle's eye : Dickinson's view of battle / Renée Bergland -- "How news must feel when traveling" : Dickinson and Civil War media / Eliza Richards -- Really indigenous productions : Emily Dickinson, Josiah Holland, and nineteenth-century popular verse / Mary Loeffelholz -- Thinking Dickinson thinking poetry / Virginia Jackson -- Dickinson and the exception / Max Cavitch -- Dickinson's uses of spiritualism : the "Nature" of democratic belief / Paul Crumbley -- "Forever-- is composed of Nows-- " : Emily Dickinson's conception of time / Gudrun M. Grabher -- God's place in Dickinson's ecology / Nancy Mayer -- Auntie Gus felled it new / Tim Morris -- Reading Dickinson in her context : the fascicles / Eleanor Elson Heginbotham -- Poetics of interruption : Dickinson, death, and the fascicles / Alexandra Socarides -- Climates of the creative process : Dickinson's epistolary journal / Connie Ann Kirk -- Hearing the visual lines : how manuscript study can contribute to an understanding of Dickinson's prosody / Ellen Louise Hart, with Sandra Chung -- "The Thews of Hymn" : Dickinson's metrical grammar / Michael L. Manson -- Dickinson's structured rhythms / Cristanne Miller -- Digital regiving : editing the sweetest messages in the Dickinson electronic archives / Tanya Clement -- Editing Dickinson in an electronic environment / Lara Vetter -- "Dare you see a soul at the White Heat?" : thoughts on a "little home-keeping person" / Sandra M. Gilbert -- Re-playing the Bible : my Emily Dickinson / Alicia Ostriker -- "For flash and click and suddenness-- " : Emily Dickinson and the photography-effect / Marta L. Werner -- "Zero to the Bone" : Thelonious Monk, Emily Dickinson, and the rhythms of modernism / Joshua Weiner
Summary This Companion to America's greatest woman poet showcases the diversity and excellence that characterize the thriving field of Dickinson studies.:.; Covers biographical approaches of Dickinson, the historical, political and cultural contexts of her work, and its critical reception over the years.; Considers issues relating to the different formats in which Dickinson's lyrics have been published - manuscript, print, halftone and digital facsimile.; Provides incisive interventions into current critical discussions, as well as opening up fresh areas of critical inquiry.; Features new work being d
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
SUBJECT Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 fast
Dickinson, Emily, (1830-1886) -- Guides, manuels, etc. ram
Dickinson, Emily. swd
Subject Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Poets, American -- 19th century -- Biography -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
Poets, American
Women and literature
Femmes écrivains américaines -- 19e siècle -- Guides, manuels, etc.
Poètes américains -- 19e siècle -- Biographies -- Guides, manuels, etc.
United States
Genre/Form handbooks.
manuals (instructional materials)
Handbooks and manuals
History
Handbooks and manuals.
Guides et manuels.
Form Electronic book
Author Smith, Martha Nell, 1953-
Loeffelholz, Mary, 1958-
LC no. 2007001661
ISBN 9780470695876
0470695870
9781118836026
1118836022
1782684565
9781782684565
1282342088
9781282342088
9786612342080
6612342080