LEADER 04825nam 22006854a 450 001 996209983203316 005 20210209181120.0 010 $a1-78268-456-5 010 $a1-282-34208-8 010 $a9786612342080 010 $a1-4051-7748-9 010 $a0-470-69662-1 010 $a0-470-69587-0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000687433 035 $a(EBL)470295 035 $a(OCoLC)648761851 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000292136 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11212696 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000292136 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10255750 035 $a(PQKB)11506658 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC470295 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4039107 035 $a(PPN)226797740 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000687433 100 $a20070112d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 02$aA companion to Emily Dickinson$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Martha Nell Smith and Mary Loeffelholz 210 $aMalden, MA $cBlackwell Pub.$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (542 p.) 225 1 $aBlackwell companions to literature and culture 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-118-49216-1 311 $a1-4051-2280-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aA Companion to Emily Dickinson; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Sources; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Biography - The Myth of "the Myth"; 1 Architecture of the Unseen; 2 Fracturing a Master Narrative, Reconstructing "Sister Sue"; 3 Public, Private Spheres: What Reading Emily Dickinson's Mail Taught Me about Civil Wars; 4 "Pretty much all real life": The Material World of the Dickinson Family; Part II: The Civil War - Historical and Political Contexts; 5 "Drums off the Phantom Battlements": Dickinson's War Poems in Discursive Context 327 $a6 The Eagle's Eye: Dickinson's View of Battle7 "How News Must Feel When Traveling": Dickinson and Civil War Media; Part III: Cultural Contexts - Literature, Philosophy, Theology, Science; 8 Really Indigenous Productions: Emily Dickinson, Josiah Holland, and Nineteenth- Century Popular Verse; 9 Thinking Dickinson Thinking Poetry; 10 Dickinson and the Exception; 11 Dickinson's Uses of Spiritualism: The "Nature" of Democratic Belief; 12 "Forever - is composed of Nows -": Emily Dickinson's Conception of Time; 13 God's Place in Dickinson's Ecology 327 $aPart IV: Textual Conditions - Manuscripts, Printings, Digital Surrogates14 Auntie Gus Felled It New; 15 Reading Dickinson in Her Context: the Fascicles; 16 The Poetics of Interruption: Dickinson, Death, and the Fascicles; 17 Climates of the Creative Process: Dickinson's Epistolary Journal; 18 Hearing the Visual Lines: How Manuscript Study Can Contribute to an Understanding of Dickinson's Prosody; 19 "The Thews of Hymn": Dickinson's Metrical Grammar; 20 Dickinson's Structured Rhythms; 21 A Digital Regiving: Editing the Sweetest Messages in the Dickinson Electronic Archives 327 $a22 Editing Dickinson in an Electronic EnvironmentPart V: Poetry & Media - Dickinson's Legacies; 23 "Dare you see a soul at the White Heat?": Thoughts on a "Little Home-keeping Person"; 24 Re-Playing the Bible: My Emily Dickinson; 25 "For Flash and Click and Suddenness -": Emily Dickinson and the Photography-Effect; 26 "Zero to the Bone": Thelonious Monk, Emily Dickinson, and the Rhythms of Modernism; Index of First Lines; Index of Letters of Emily Dickinson; Index 330 $aThis companion to America?s greatest woman poet showcases the diversity and excellence that characterize the thriving field of Dickinson studies.Covers biographical approaches of Dickinson, the historical, political and cultural contexts of her work, and its critical reception over the years Considers issues relating to the different formats in which Dickinson?s lyrics have been published ? manuscript, print, halftone and digital facsimile Provides incisive interventions into current critical discussions, as well as opening up fresh areas of critical inquiry