Reading Emily Dickinson's letters : critical essays / edited by Jane Donahue Eberwein and Cindy MacKenzie.

Other author Eberwein, Jane Donahue, 1943-
Other author MacKenzie, Cindy.
Format Book
Publication InfoAmherst, [Mass.] : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2009.
Descriptionxiii, 293 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886--Criticism and interpretation.
Poets, American--19th century. --Correspondence.
American letters--History and criticism.
Poetics--History. --19th century.

Contents "This is my letter to the world": Emily Dickinson's epistolary poetics / Cindy Mackenzie -- Dickinson's correspondence and the politics of gift-based circulation / Paul Crumbley -- "Blossom[s] of the brain": women's culture and the poetics of Emily Dickinson's correspondence / Stephanie Tingley -- "Saying nothing . . . sometimes says the most": Dickinson's letters to Catherine Dickinson Sweetser / Karen Dandurand -- Messages of condolence: "more peace than pang" / Jane Donahue Eberwein -- "What are you reading now?": Emily Dickinson's epistolary book club / Eleanor Heginbotham -- Emily Dickinson and marriage: "the etruscan experiment" / Judith Farr -- Heritable heaven: erotic properties in the Dickinson-Lord correspondence / James Guthrie -- Alliteration, emphasis, and spatial prosody in Dickinson's manuscript letters / Ellen Louise Hart -- A hazard of a letter's fortunes: epistolarity and the technology of audience in Emily Dickinson's correspondences / Martha Nell Smith.
Abstract In this volume, distinguished literary scholars focus intensively on Dickinson's letter-writing and what her letters reveal about her poetics, her personal associations, and her self-awareness as a writer.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 257-270) and indexes.
LCCN 2009039769
ISBN9781558497412 (alk. paper)
ISBN1558497412 (alk. paper)

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