Emily Dickinson

A User's Guide
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-4051-4720-0
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten

Reihe: Blackwell Introductions to Literature

Emily Dickinson, A User's Guide presents a comprehensive introduction to the life and works of Emily Dickinson, Offers a richly appreciative biographical and critical introduction to America's most widely admired woman poet
* Written by a world-renowned Emily Dickinson scholar and American literary critic
* Represents the only book that reads Dickinson through her manuscripts, the print editions of her work, and the major digital Dickinson editions published since 1994
* The User's Guide is a new kind of book for a new era of reading
* Is the only book that is an introduction to the poet, her work, and her receptions among readers
* Is the only book that presents new biography and textual discoveries that have just come to light in 2011
* Interprets Dickinson through the dynamic interchange between the reader's sense of her life and her work
* Draws on prominent critical views from the past century, including sentimental, modernist, new critical, psychological, feminist, queer, and postmodernist readings

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Martha Nell

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

Martha Nell Smith is Professor of English, Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, and Advance Professor at the University of Maryland. Her numerous print publications include Companion to Emily Dickinson (2008); Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Dickinson (1998); Comic Power in Emily Dickinson (1993); and Rowing in Eden: Rereading Emily Dickinson (1992).