LEADER 04348nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910457967003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-53241-6 010 $a0-19-972914-X 010 $a1-4337-0036-0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000363048 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24087550 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000171833 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11171016 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000171833 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10150389 035 $a(PQKB)11622819 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC279769 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL279769 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10142501 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL53241 035 $a(OCoLC)935261909 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000363048 100 $a20030205d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 02$aA historical guide to Emily Dickinson$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Vivian R. Pollak 210 $aNew York $cOxford University Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (303 p. )$cill., facsims., ports 225 1 $aHistorical guides to American authors 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-19-515134-8 320 $a"Bibliographical essay": p. 255-283. 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aThe essays presented here provide an overview of Emily Dickinson studies at the start of the 21st century. While locating the public Dickinson in relation to American political, social and literary history, this volume also remains faithful to the private particulars of her self-fashioned career. 330 $bOne of America's most celebrated women, Emily Dickinson was virtually unpublished in her own time and unknown to the public at large. Yet since the first publication of a limited selection of her poems in 1890, she has emerged as one of the most challenging and rewarding writers of all time. Born into a prosperous family in small town Amherst, Massachusetts, she had an above average education for a woman, attending a private high school and then Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, now Mount Holyoke College. Returning to Amherst to her loving family and her "feast" in the reading line, in the 1850's she became increasingly solitary and after the Civil War she spent her life indoors. Despite her cooking and gardening and extensive correspondence, Dickinson's life was strikingly narrow in its social compass. Not so her mind, and on her death in 1886 her sister discovered an astonishing cache of close to eighteen hundred poems. Bitter family quarrels delayed the full publication of Dickinson's "letter to the World," but today her poetry is commonly anthologized and widely praised for its precision, its intensity, its depth and beauty. Dickinson's life and work, however, remain in important ways mysterious. The essays presented here, all of them previously unpublished, provide an overview of Dickinson studies at the start of the twenty-first century. Written in an engaging and accessible style, this collection represents the best of contemporary scholarship and points the way toward exciting new directions for the future. The volume includes a biographical essay that covers some of the major turning points in the poet's life, especially those emphasized by her letters. Other essays discuss Dickinson's religious beliefs, her response to the Civil War, her class-based politics, her place in a tradition of American women's poetry, and the editing of her manuscripts. A Historical Guide to Emily Dickinson concludes with a rich bibliographical essay describing the controversial history of Dickinson's life in print, together with a substantial bibliography of relevant sources. 410 0$aHistorical guides to American authors. 606 $aLiterature and history$zMassachusetts$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aWomen and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLiterature and history$xHistory 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 676 $a811/.4 701 $aPollak$b Vivian R$0906105 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457967003321 996 $aA historical guide to Emily Dickinson$92026893 997 $aUNINA