Emily Dickinson in context /
Long untouched by contemporary events, ideas and environments, Emily Dickinson's writings have been the subject of intense historical research in recent years. This volume of thirty-three essays by leading scholars offers a comprehensive introduction to the contexts most important for the study...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- List of illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations and textual note
- Chronology
- Introduction / Eliza Richards
- Part I. Local environments
- Amherst / Domhnall Mitchell
- Reading in the Dickinson Libraries / Eleanor Elson Heginbotham
- Education / Angela Sorby
- New England Puritan heritage / Jane Donahue Eberwein
- Nature's influence / Margaret H. Freeman
- Part II. Literary contexts : sources, influences, intertextual engagements
- The Bible / Emily Seelbinder
- Shakespeare / Páraic Finnerty
- Renaissance and eighteenth-century literature / David Cody
- British Romantic and Victorian influences / Elizabeth A. Petrino
- Transatlantic women writers / Páraic Finnerty
- Immediate U.S. literary predecessors / Cristanne Miller
- Periodical reading / Joan Kirkby
- Part III. Social, cultural,political, and intellecutal contexts
- Religion / James McIntosh
- Death and immortality / Joan Kirkby
- Gendered poetics
- Shira Wolosky
- Democratic politics / Paul Crumbley
- Economics / Elizabeth Hewitt
- Law and legal discourse / James Guthrie
- Slavery and the Civil War / Faith Barrett
- Popular culture / Sandra Runzo
- Visual arts : The pentimento / Alexander Nemerov
- Natural sciences / Sabine Sielke
- Nineteenth-century language theory and the manuscript variants / Melanie Hubbard
- "Say some philosopher!" / Jed Deppman
- Part IV. Reception
- Editorial history I : beginnings to 1955 / Martha Nell Smith
- Editorial history II : 1955 to the present / Alexandra Socarides
- On materiality (and virtuality) / Gabrielle Dean
- The letters archive / Cindy MacKenzie
- Critical history I : 1890-1955 / Theo Davis
- Critical history : 1955 to the present / Magdalena Zapedowska
- Dickinson's influence / Thomas Gardner
- Translation and international reception / Domhnall Mitchell
- Further reading
- Index
- Index of Emily Dickinson's poems.