A vice for voices : reading Emily Dickinson's correspondence / Marietta Messmer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Messmer, Marietta.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Correspondence.

Dickinson, Emily.

Poets, American--19th century--Correspondence.

Poets, American.

American letters.

Women and literature--United States--History--19th century.

Women and literature.

United States.

History.

American letters--History and criticism.

Genre:

Correspondence.

Personal correspondence.

Physical Description:

xi, 280 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2001]

Contents:

Introduction: Two Centuries of Critical Responses to Dickinson's Letters 1

1. The Context of Nineteenth-Century Epistolary Conventions 27

2. Editing Dickinson's Correspondence, 1894-1999 49

3. The "Female" World of Love and Duty 71

4. The "Male" World of Power and Poetry 107

5. Manipulating Multiple Voices 141

Conclusion: Dickinson's Letters to the World 183.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-259) and indexes.

ISBN:

1558493069

OCLC:

46866195