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Reading Emily Dickinson's letters : critical essays / edited by Jane Donahue Eberwein and Cindy MacKenzie.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886--Criticism and interpretation.
- Dickinson, Emily.
- Poets, American--19th century--Correspondence.
- Poets, American.
- American letters--History and criticism.
- American letters.
- Poetics--History--19th century.
- Poetics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (311 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : University of Massachusetts Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- "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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61376-019-1
- OCLC:
- 794701584
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