| Description |
1 online resource (303 pages) : illustrations |
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Historical guides to American authors |
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Historical guides to American authors.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Vivian R. Pollak -- Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886: a brief biography / Vivian R. Pollak, Marianne Noble -- DICKINSON IN HER TIME -- "Is immorality true?": salvaging faith in an age of upheavals / Jane Donahue Eberwein -- Public and private in Dickinson's war poetry / Shira Wolosky -- Dickinson and the art of politics / Betsy Erkkila -- Dickinson in context: nineteenth-century American women poets / Cheryl Walker -- The sound of shifting paradigms, or hearing Dickinson in the twenty-first century / Christanne Miller |
| Summary |
One of America's most celebrated women, Emily Dickinson was virtually unpublished in her own time and unknown to the public at large.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 This collection of essays, all of them previously unpublished, represent the best of contemporary scholarship and points the way toward exciting new directions for the future.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 |
| Bibliography |
"Bibliographical essay": pages 255-283 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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| Subject |
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 fast |
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Dickinson, Emily. swd |
| Subject |
Literature and history -- Massachusetts -- History -- 19th century
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Women and literature -- Massachusetts -- History -- 19th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
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Literature and history
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Women and literature
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Massachusetts
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pollak, Vivian R.
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| LC no. |
2003002308 |
| ISBN |
9780199729142 |
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019972914X |
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1423763203 |
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9781423763208 |
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1433700360 |
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9781433700361 |
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9780195151343 |
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0195151348 |
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9780195151350 |
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0195151356 |
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9786610532414 |
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6610532419 |
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1280532416 |
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9781280532412 |
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9780190288020 |
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0190288027 |
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