Writing in time : Emily Dickinson's master hours / Marta Werner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Werner, Marta L., 1964- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886--Manuscripts.

Dickinson, Emily.

Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886--Manuscripts--Facsimiles.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (125 pages some folded) : color illustrations ;

Other Title:

Emily Dickinson's master hours

Place of Publication:

Amherst, Massachusetts : Amherst College Press, [2021]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For more than half a century, the story of Emily Dickinson's "Master" documents has been the largely biographical tale of three letters to an unidentified individual. Writing in Time seeks to tell a different story--the story of the documents themselves. Rather than presenting the "Master" documents as quarantined from Dickinson's larger scene of textual production, Marta Werner's innovative new edition proposes reading them next to Dickinson's other major textual experiment in the years between ca. 1858-1861: the Fascicles. In both, Dickinson can be seen testing the limits of address and genre in order to escape bibliographical determination and the very coordinates of "mastery" itself. A major event in Dickinson scholarship, Writing in Time: Emily Dickinson's Master Hours proposes new constellations of Dickinson's work as well as exciting new methodologies for textual scholarship as an act of "intimate editorial investigation."

Contents:

Prologue: To the reader

Historical introduction: The discovery, transmission, and printing histories of the "master letters"

Early printings

In the hour of the new bibliography

Homage to Ralph W. Franklin

Textual introduction: From letters to documents: Imagining a new edition of the "master" documents

Re-drawing the boundaries

Dating the "master" documents

Editing in space and time

Principles of transcription

Manuscript witnesses & transcriptions in time

Dear master / I am ill - (A 827)

The writing line, ca. spring 1858-ca. summer 1860

Mute - thy Coronation - (A 825)

The writing line, ca. autumn 1860-ca. winter 1861

Oh ' did I offend it - (A 829)

The writing line, ca. spring 1861

Master ./ If you saw a bullet (A 828)

Reading hours

Commentaries on the "master" documents

The hour of flowers: A 827

The hour of ermine: A 825

The hour of lead: A 829

The midnight hour: A 826

The queen's hour: A 828.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 122-125).

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Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9781943208197

1943208190

OCLC:

1298513830