Smith / Loeffelholz A Companion to Emily Dickinson

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-83602-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 576 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

This companion to America?s greatest woman poet showcases thediversity and excellence that characterize the thriving field ofDickinson studies.
* * Covers biographical approaches of Dickinson, the historical,political and cultural contexts of her work, and its criticalreception over the years
* Considers issues relating to the different formats in whichDickinson?s lyrics have been published ? manuscript, print,halftone and digital facsimile
* Provides incisive interventions into current criticaldiscussions, as well as opening up fresh areas of criticalinquiry
* Features new work being done in the critique ofnineteenth-century American poetry generally, as well as new workbeing done in Dickinson studies
* Designed to be used alongside the Dickinson ElectronicArchives, an online resource developed over the past ten years

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Martha Nell

Loeffelholz, Mary

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors viii
Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Sources xv
Acknowledgments xvi
Introduction 1
Martha Nell Smith and Mary Loeffelholz
Part I: Biography - the Myth of "the Myth"9
1 Architecture of the Unseen 11
Aife Murray
2 Fracturing a Master Narrative, Reconstructing "SisterSue" 37
Ingrid Satelmajer
3 Public, Private Spheres: What Reading Emily Dickinson'sMail Taught me about Civil Wars 58
Martha Nell Smith
4 "Pretty much all real life": The Material World ofthe Dickinson Family 79
Jane Wald
Part II: The Civil War - Historical and PoliticalContexts 105
5 "Drums off the Phantom Battlements":Dickinson's War Poems in Discursive Context 107
Faith Barrett
6 The Eagle's Eye: Dickinson's View of Battle133
Renée Bergland
7 "How News Must Feel When Traveling": Dickinson andCivil War Media 157
Eliza Richards
Part III: Cultural Contexts - Literature,Philosophy, Theology, Science 181
8 Really Indigenous Productions: Emily Dickinson, JosiahHolland, and Nineteenth-Century Popular Verse 183
Mary Loeffelholz
9 Thinking Dickinson Thinking Poetry 205
Virginia Jackson
10 Dickinson and the Exception 222
Max Cavitch
11 Dickinson's Uses of Spiritualism: The"Nature" of Democratic Belief 235
Paul Crumbley
12 "Forever - is Composed of Nows -":Emily Dickinson's Conception of Time 258
Gudrun M. Grabher
13 God's Place in Dickinson's Ecology 269
Nancy Mayer
Part IV: Textual Conditions: Manuscripts, Printings, DigitalSurrogates 279
14 Auntie Gus Felled It New 281
Tim Morris
15 Reading Dickinson in Her Context: The Fascicles 288
Eleanor Elson Heginbotham
16 The Poetics of Interruption: Dickinson, Death, and theFascicles 309
Alexandra Socarides
17 Climates of the Creative Process: Dickinson'sEpistolary Journal 334
Connie Ann Kirk
18 Hearing the Visual Lines: How Manuscript Study Can Contributeto an Understanding of Dickinson's Prosody 348
Ellen Louise Hart, with Sandra Chung
19 "The Thews of Hymn": Dickinson's MetricalGrammar 368
Michael L. Manson
20 Dickinson's Structured Rhythms 391
Cristanne Miller
21 A Digital Regiving: Editing the Sweetest Messages in theDickinson Electronic Archives 415
Tanya Clement
22 Editing Dickinson in an Electronic Environment 437
Lara Vetter
Part V: Poetry & Media - Dickinson's Legacies453
23 "Dare you see a soul at the White Heat?": Thoughtson a "Little Home-keeping Person" 455
Sandra M. Gilbert
24 Re-Playing the Bible: My Emily Dickinson 462
Alicia Ostriker
25 "For Flash and Click and Suddenness-":Emily Dickinson and the Photography-Effect 471
Marta L. Werner
26 "Zero to the Bone": Thelonious Monk, EmilyDickinson, and the Rhythms of Modernism 490
Joshua Weiner
Index of First Lines 496
Index of Letters of Emily Dickinson 500
Index 503

Über Autor(innen)

Martha Nell Smith is Professor of English and DistinguishedScholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland. Her numerouspublications include three award-winning books - Open MeCarefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to SusanDickinson (1998), Comic Power in Emily Dickinson (1993),Rowing in Eden: Rereading Emily Dickinson (1992) - thescholarly edition, Emily Dickinson's Correspondences: ABorn-Digital Scholarly Inquiry (2008), and over 50 journalarticles and book chapters. The recipient of numerous awards forher work on Dickinson and in new media, Smith is also Coordinatorand Executive Editor of the Dickinson Electronic Archivesprojects at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities(IATH) at the University of Virginia.
Mary Loeffelholz is Professor of English and Vice Provostfor Academic Affairs at Northeastern University. She is the authorof From School to Salon: Reading Nineteenth-Century AmericanWomen's Poetry (2004), Experimental Lives: Women andLiterature, 1900-1945 (1992), Dickinson and the Boundaries ofFeminist Theory (1991), and of a number of essays on nineteenth-and twentieth-century American poetry and culture. She was formerlyeditor of Studies in American Fiction and is the editor of VolumeD, Between the Wars: 1914-1945 in the Norton Anthology ofAmerican Literature