Reading Emily Dickinson's Letters: Critical Essays - Hardcover

Donahue Eberwein, Jane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1558497412 ISBN 13: 9781558497412

Verlag: University Of Massachusetts Pr, 2010

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"It is high time for renewed large-scale attention to Dickinson's letters and this volume provides a marvelously up-to-date range of critical, theoretical, and pragmatic responses to the personal, social, cultural, and poetic functions of her letter-writing. The contributors include many of the most highly respected Dickinson scholars, and many of the essays will be useful for the classroom as well as for scholars." - Cristanne Miller, author of Emily Dickinson: A Poet's Grammar"

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This title includes original essays that explore a brilliant poet's written correspondence. Emily Dickinson, who regarded a letter as 'a joy of Earth', was herself a gifted epistolary artist - cryptic and allusive in style, dazzling in verbal effects, and sensitively attuned to the recipients of her many letters. 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. Although Dickinson's letters have provided invaluable perspective for biographers and lovers of poetry since Mabel Loomis Todd published the first selection in 1894, today's scholarly climate opens potential for fresh insights drawn from new theoretical approaches, informed cultural contextualizations, and rigorous examination of manuscript evidence. Essays in this collection explore ways that Emily Dickinson adapted nineteenth-century epistolary conventions of women's culture, as well as how she directed her writing to particular readers, providing subtly tactful guidance to ways of approaching her poetics. Close examination of her letters reveals the conscious artistry of Dickinson's writing, from her auditory effects to her experiments with form and tone. Her well-known correspondences with Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Susan Dickinson, Helen Hunt Jackson, and Otis Phillips Lord are examined here, but so too are previously neglected family communications with her aunt Kate Sweetser and cousin Eugenia Montague. Contributors find in these various letters evidence of Dickinson's enthusiastic participation in a sort of epistolary book club involving multiple friends, as well as her loving attentiveness to individuals in times of both suffering and joy. These inquiries highlight her thoughts on love, marriage, gender roles, art, and death, while unraveling mysteries ranging from legal discourse to Etruscan smiles.

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• Verlag: University Of Massachusetts Pr
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1558497412
• ISBN 13: 9781558497412
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304