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First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 631 pages) : illustrations. |
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Oxford handbooks
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Oxford handbooks.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
A Poetry "composed of Nows -": Dickinson's Historical Context and Contemporary Relevance -- Part I. "Do they know that this is Amherst": Dickinson in Place -- 1. Whose Native Place? The Dickinsons and the Colonization of the Connecticut River Valley -- 2. "Where congregations ne'er break up": The Dickinsons and Amherst's First Church -- 3. "The pedigree of Honey": Class, Colony, and Politics in Amherst's "Bee Hive" and Dickinson's Bee Poems -- 4. "Seam by Seam": Dickinson's Literary Labors -- 5. A Short Biography of the Homestead and The Evergreens -- 6. "Except the smaller size -": Aunt Emily's Poetry -- 7. The Death of Little Gib -- 8. "The Wanderers came last Night": Dickinson and the Material Culture of Indigenous Basket Sellers -- Part II. "Essential Oils": Dickinson's Poetics and Compositional Practices -- 9. "Dragons - in the Crease -": Dickinson's Dangerous Lyricism -- 10. Dickinson's Spinster Poetics -- 11. The Letter Not Sent: Dickinson's Fascicles and the Poet's Place in the World -- 12. "My Business is to Love": Address and Affect in Dickinson's Circulated Poems -- 13. Writing for Posterity: Editing, Evidence, and Sequence in Dickinson's Composition and Circulation of Poems -- 14. The Material and Editorial Condition of Dickinson's "Master" Documents -- 15. Butterfly Tropics: Dickinson and Archival Poetics -- 16. Dickinson's Influence on Recent American Poetry -- Part III. "You'll find the Music": Dickinson's Media Contexts -- 17. "Yellow Noise": Information and Form in Dickinson's Intermedial Writing -- 18. "Say it again! Saxon!": The Erotic Intimate Space of Reading -- 19. Dickinson Uncut: Reading and Not Reading in Print Culture -- 20. "On the walls of her own room hung framed portraits of Mrs. Browning, George Eliot, and Carlyle": Dickinson's Heroes and Hero-Worship -- 21. Emily Dickinson's Black Contexts -- 22. Learning to Write with Emily Dickinson: Poetry, Pedagogy, and Nineteenth-Century Girlhood -- 23. Looking Back on Dickinson's Reception in Japan -- 24. "Discretion in the interval -": Musical Improvisation and Emily Dickinson's Manuscript Variations -- 25. Dickinson Composed -- Part IV. "Such are the inlets of the mind-": Ways of Knowing and the World -- 26. Linguistic Turns: Emerson's Figuralism and Dickinson's Biblical Contests -- 27. Glory, Honor, Might, Majesty, Dominion, and Power: Reading Dickinson through Wilfred Owen -- 28. "The Finite - furnished / With the Infinite -": Dickinson's Biblical Imaginations -- 29. Imaginary Geography: Dickinson Latina -- 30. Dickinson's Garden Ecologies -- 31. "You felt your Second": Dickinson and Nineteenth-Century Timekeeping -- 32. Dickinson Emergent: Natural Philosophy and the Postdisciplinary Manifold -- 33. "How ruthless are the gentle -": The Art of Emily Dickinson and Lesley Dill -- Part V. Coda: 34. Living and Dying with Emily Dickinson. |
| Summary |
A Handbook devoted to the American poet Emily Dickinson (1830-86) that explores form and genre, reception of her work, and the ways that Dickinson's life and writing intersected with important historical events such as the Civil War, slavery, the women's rights movement, and the growth of capitalism. |
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"Includes new historical research that provides the most thorough nineteenth-century contextualization of Dickinson in relation to religion, race, gender, sexuality, age, class, ecology, and place, and historically grounded contexts for thinking about publication, media, education, and reading practices. Features original interpretations of Dickinson's compositional practices, reception, and influence including chapters on translations of Dickinson's work into visual arts, musical composition, international cultural practices, popular culture, and other languages. Considers Dickinson's composition and circulation of poems, her environmental ecology, her responses to the Civil War, and her relation to publishing and media." -- Provided by publisher. |
| Access |
DRM-free. |
| Subject |
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886.
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Women poets, American -- 19th century -- Biography.
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Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJhMjdhRdPQDrrvR7JYkjC |
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American literature |
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Women and literature |
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Women poets, American |
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United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
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Electronic books.
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Literary criticism.
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Biographies
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Added Author |
Miller, Cristanne, editor.
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Sánchez-Eppler, Karen, editor.
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| Added Title |
Emily Dickinson |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Oxford handbook of Emily Dickinson. First edition. Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022 9780198833932 (DLC) 2021924306 (OCoLC)1273914121 |
| ISBN |
9780192570703 (electronic bk.) |
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0192570706 (electronic bk.) |
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9780192570697 electronic book |
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0192570692 electronic book |
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9780191872273 electronic book |
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019187227X electronic book |
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0198833938 |
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9780198833932 |
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