Periodical reading / Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations and textual note -- Chronology -- Introduction / Joan Kirkby -- Part II. Literary contexts : sources, influences, intertextual engagements -- Amherst / Domhnall Mitchell -- Reading in the Dickinson Libraries / Eleanor Elson Heginbotham -- Education / Angela Sorby -- New England Puritan heritage / Jane Donahue Eberwein -- Nature's influence / Margaret H. Freeman -- Part II. Literary contexts : sources, influences, intertextual engagements -- The Bible / Emily Seelbinder -- Shakespeare / Páraic Finnerty -- Renaissance and eighteenth-century literature / David Cody -- British Romantic and Victorian influences / Elizabeth A. Petrino -- Transatlantic women writers / Páraic Finnerty -- Immediate U.S. literary predecessors / Cristanne Miller -- U.S. literary contemporaries: Dickinson's moderns / Mary Loeffelholz -- Periodical reading / Joan Kirkby -- Part IV. Reception -- Critical history : 1955 to the present / Theo Davis -- Death and immortality / Joan Kirkby -- Gendered poetics -- Shira Wolosky -- Democratic politics / Paul Crumbley -- Economics / Elizabeth Hewitt -- Law and legal discourse / James Guthrie -- Slavery and the Civil War / Faith Barrett -- Popular culture / Sandra Runzo -- Visual arts : The pentimento / Alexander Nemerov -- Natural sciences / Sabine Sielke -- Nineteenth-century language theory and the manuscript variants / Melanie Hubbard -- "Say some philosopher!" / Jed Deppman -- Part IV. Reception -- Editorial history I : beginnings to 1955 / Martha Nell Smith -- Editorial history II : 1955 to the present / Alexandra Socarides -- On materiality (and virtuality) / Gabrielle Dean -- The letters archive / Cindy MacKenzie -- Critical history I : 1890-1955 / Theo Davis -- Critical history : 1955 to the present / Domhnall Mitchell -- Index of Emily Dickinson's poems. Thomas Gardner -- Translation and international reception / Domhnall Mitchell -- Further reading -- Index -- Index of Emily Dickinson's poems.
Summary:
Long untouched by contemporary events, ideas and environments, Emily Dickinson's writings have been the subject of intense historical research in recent years. This volume of thirty-three essays by leading scholars offers a comprehensive introduction to the contexts most important for the study of Dickinson's writings. While providing an overview of their topic, the essays also present groundbreaking research and original arguments, treating the poet's local environments, literary influences, social, cultural, political and intellectual contexts, and reception. A resource for scholars and students of American literature and poetry in English, the collection is an indispensable contribution to the study not only of Dickinson's writings but also of the contexts for poetic production and circulation more generally in the nineteenth-century United States. -- Publisher website.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.