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A Companion to Emily Dickinson


A Companion to Emily Dickinson


Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture 1. Aufl.

von: Martha Nell Smith, Mary Loeffelholz

38,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 30.04.2008
ISBN/EAN: 9780470695876
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 544

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<p><b>This companion to America's greatest woman poet showcases the diversity and excellence that characterize the thriving field of Dickinson studies.</b></p> <ul> <li>Covers biographical approaches of Dickinson, the historical, political and cultural contexts of her work, and its critical reception over the years</li> <li>Considers issues relating to the different formats in which Dickinson's lyrics have been published ? manuscript, print, halftone and digital facsimile</li> <li>Provides incisive interventions into current critical discussions, as well as opening up fresh areas of critical inquiry</li> <li>Features new work being done in the critique of nineteenth-century American poetry generally, as well as new work being done in Dickinson studies</li> <li>Designed to be used alongside the Dickinson Electronic Archives, an online resource developed over the past ten years</li> </ul>
<p>Notes on Contributors viii</p> <p>Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Sources xv</p> <p>Acknowledgments xvi</p> <p>Introduction 1<br /><i>Martha Nell Smith and Mary Loeffelholz</i></p> <p><b>Part I: Biography – the Myth of “the Myth” 9</b></p> <p>1 Architecture of the Unseen 11<br /><i>Aife Murray</i></p> <p>2 Fracturing a Master Narrative, Reconstructing “Sister Sue” 37<br />ngrid <i>Satelmajer</i></p> <p>3 Public, Private Spheres: What Reading Emily Dickinson’s Mail Taught me about Civil Wars 58<br /><i>Martha Nell Smith</i></p> <p>4 “Pretty much all real life”: The Material World of the Dickinson Family 79<br /><i>Jane Wald</i></p> <p><b>Part II: The Civil War – Historical and Political Contexts 105</b></p> <p>5 “Drums off the Phantom Battlements”: Dickinson’s War Poems in Discursive Context 107<br /><i>Faith Barrett</i></p> <p>6 The Eagle’s Eye: Dickinson’s View of Battle 133<br /><i>Renée Bergland</i></p> <p>7 “How News Must Feel When Traveling”: Dickinson and Civil War Media 157<br /><i>Eliza Richards</i></p> <p><b>Part III: Cultural Contexts – Literature, Philosophy, Theology, Science 181</b></p> <p>8 Really Indigenous Productions: Emily Dickinson, Josiah Holland, and Nineteenth-Century Popular Verse 183<br /><i>Mary Loeffelholz</i></p> <p>9 Thinking Dickinson Thinking Poetry 205<br /><i>Virginia Jackson</i></p> <p>10 Dickinson and the Exception 222<br /><i>Max Cavitch</i></p> <p>11 Dickinson’s Uses of Spiritualism: The “Nature” of Democratic Belief 235<br /><i>Paul Crumbley</i></p> <p>12 “Forever – is Composed of Nows –”: Emily Dickinson’s Conception of Time 258<br /><i>Gudrun M. Grabher</i></p> <p>13 God’s Place in Dickinson’s Ecology 269<br /><i>Nancy Mayer</i></p> <p><b>Part IV: Textual Conditions: Manuscripts, Printings, Digital Surrogates 279</b></p> <p>14 Auntie Gus Felled It New 281<br /><i>Tim Morris</i></p> <p>15 Reading Dickinson in Her Context: The Fascicles 288<br /><i>Eleanor Elson Heginbotham</i></p> <p>16 The Poetics of Interruption: Dickinson, Death, and the Fascicles 309<br /><i>Alexandra Socarides</i></p> <p>17 Climates of the Creative Process: Dickinson’s Epistolary Journal 334<br /><i>Connie Ann Kirk</i></p> <p>18 Hearing the Visual Lines: How Manuscript Study Can Contribute to an Understanding of  Dickinson’s Prosody 348<br /><i>Ellen Louise Hart</i>, with <i>Sandra Chung</i></p> <p>19 “The Thews of Hymn”: Dickinson’s Metrical Grammar 368<br /><i>Michael L. Manson</i></p> <p>20 Dickinson’s Structured Rhythms 391<br /><i>Cristanne Miller</i></p> <p>21 A Digital Regiving: Editing the Sweetest Messages in the Dickinson Electronic Archives 415<br /><i>Tanya Clement</i></p> <p>22 Editing Dickinson in an Electronic Environment 437<br /><i>Lara Vetter</i></p> <p><b>Part V: Poetry & Media – Dickinson’s Legacies 453</b></p> <p>23 “Dare you see a soul at the White Heat?”: Thoughts on a “Little Home-keeping Person” 455<br /><i>Sandra M. Gilbert</i></p> <p>24 Re-Playing the Bible: My Emily Dickinson 462<br /><i>Alicia Ostriker</i></p> <p>25 “For Flash and Click and Suddenness–”: Emily Dickinson and the Photography-Effect 471<br /><i>Marta L. Werner</i></p> <p>26 “Zero to the Bone”: Thelonious Monk, Emily Dickinson, and the Rhythms of Modernism 490<br /><i>Joshua Weiner</i></p> <p>Index of First Lines 496</p> <p>Index of Letters of Emily Dickinson 500</p> <p>Index 503</p>
"The twenty-six essays that make up this <i>Companion</i> are all of extremely high quality [and] each is quite distinct from the others.... This book is an essential addition to any university library where Dickinson's poetry is included on courses, at any level, and would add depth and breadth to public library collections where Dickinson's poetry is already of significant interest." (<i>Reference Reviews</i>, November 2009) <p>"The essays show the breadth, depth, and vitality of current scholarship in Dickinson studies. Indexed and selectively illustrated with black and white photographs, this volume merits a place alongside <i>An Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia</i> and <i>The Emily Dickinson Handbook</i>, but is unique in offering readers the benefits of digital collaboration." (<i>Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin</i>, Fall 2008)</p>
<b>Martha Nell Smith</b> is Professor of English and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland. Her numerous publications include three award-winning books – <i>Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters to Susan Dickinson</i> (1998), <i>Comic Power in Emily Dickinson</i> (1993), <i>Rowing in Eden: Rereading Emily Dickinson</i> (1992) – the scholarly edition, <i>Emily Dickinson’s Correspondences: A Born-Digital Scholarly Inquiry</i> (2008), and over 50 journal articles and book chapters. The recipient of numerous awards for her work on Dickinson and in new media, Smith is also Coordinator and Executive Editor of the <i>Dickinson Electronic Archives</i> projects at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) at the University of Virginia.<br /> <br /> <b>Mary Loeffelholz</b> is Professor of English and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs at Northeastern University. She is the author of From School to Salon: Reading Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Poetry (2004), Experimental Lives: Women and Literature, 1900–1945 (1992), Dickinson and the Boundaries of Feminist Theory (1991), and of a number of essays on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American poetry and culture. She was formerly editor of Studies in American Fiction and is the editor of Volume D, Between the Wars: 1914–1945 in the Norton Anthology of American Literature
This <i>Companion</i> to America’s greatest woman poet showcases the diversity and excellence that characterize the thriving field of Dickinson studies. The volume’s original contributions are written by cutting-edge scholars and provide incisive interventions into current critical discussions as well as opening up fresh areas of critical inquiry. They feature new work being done in the critique of nineteenth-century American poetry, as well as new work being done in Dickinson studies.<br /> <p>The <i>Companion</i> is exceptionally broad in scope, covering biographical approaches to Dickinson, the historical, political, and cultural contexts of her work, and its critical reception over the years. Unusually, the volume also emphasizes issues relating to the different formats in which Dickinson’s lyrics have been published – manuscript, print, halftone and digital facsimile. In all areas, readers are able to benefit from using the volume alongside the <i>Dickinson Electronic Archives</i> (<a href="http://emilydickinson.org/">http://emilydickinson.org</a>), an online resource developed over the past twenty years by one of the editors, together with teams of Dickinson critics, and markup and programming specialists.</p>
"The twenty-six essays that make up this Companion are all of extremely high quality [and] each is quite distinct from the others.... This book is an essential addition to any university library where Dickinson's poetry is included on courses, at any level, and would add depth and breadth to public library collections where Dickinson's poetry is already of significant interest." (Reference Reviews, November 2009) <br /><br />"The essays show the breadth, depth, and vitality of current scholarship in Dickinson studies. Indexed and selectively illustrated with black and white photographs, this volume merits a place alongside An Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia and The Emily Dickinson Handbook, but is unique in offering readers the benefits of digital collaboration." (Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin, Fall 2008)

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