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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817129303321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

1-61376-019-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (311 p.)

Disciplina

811/.4

Soggetti

Poets, American - 19th century

American letters - History and criticism

Poetics - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

"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.