Emily Dickinson’s Reception in the 1890s
Title | Emily Dickinson’s Reception in the 1890s PDF eBook |
Author | Willis J. Buckingham |
Publisher | Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Pages | 664 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
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This work reprint, annotates, and indexes virtually all mention of Emily Dickinson in the first decade of her publication, tripling the known references to the poet during the nineties. Much of this material, drawn from scrapbooks of clippings, rare journals, and crumbling newspapers, was on the verge of extinction. Modern audiences will be struck by the impact of Dickinson’s poetry on her first readers. We learn much about the taste of the period and the relationship between publishers, reviewers, and the reading public. It demonstrates that Dickinson enjoyed a wider popular reception than had been realized: readers were astonished by her creative brilliance.
Poems by Emily Dickinson
Title | Poems by Emily Dickinson PDF eBook |
Author | Emily Dickinson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 1890 |
Genre | American poetry |
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A Historical Guide to Emily Dickinson
Title | A Historical Guide to Emily Dickinson PDF eBook |
Author | Vivian R. Pollak |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2004-01-29 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780199729142 |
One of America's most celebrated women, Emily Dickinson was virtually unpublished in her own time and unknown to the public at large. Yet since the first publication of a limited selection of her poems in 1890, she has emerged as one of the most challenging and rewarding writers of all time. Born into a prosperous family in small town Amherst, Massachusetts, she had an above average education for a woman, attending a private high school and then Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, now Mount Holyoke College. Returning to Amherst to her loving family and her "feast" in the reading line, in the 1850s she became increasingly solitary and after the Civil War she spent her life indoors. Despite her cooking and gardening and extensive correspondence, Dickinson's life was strikingly narrow in its social compass. Not so her mind, and on her death in 1886 her sister discovered an astonishing cache of close to eighteen hundred poems. Bitter family quarrels delayed the full publication of Dickinson's "letter to the World," but today her poetry is commonly anthologized and widely praised for its precision, its intensity, its depth and beauty. Dickinson's life and work, however, remain in important ways mysterious. The essays presented here, all of them previously unpublished, provide an overview of Dickinson studies at the start of the twenty-first century. Written in an engaging and accessible style, this collection represents the best of contemporary scholarship and points the way toward exciting new directions for the future. The volume includes a biographical essay that covers some of the major turning points in the poet's life, especially those emphasized by her letters. Other essays discuss Dickinson's religious beliefs, her response to the Civil War, her class-based politics, her place in a tradition of American women's poetry, and the editing of her manuscripts. A Historical Guide to Emily Dickinson concludes with a rich bibliographical essay describing the controversial history of Dickinson's life in print, together with a substantial bibliography of relevant sources.
Our Emily Dickinsons
Title | Our Emily Dickinsons PDF eBook |
Author | Vivian R. Pollak |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0812248449 |
Our Emily Dickinsons situates Dickinson's life and work within larger debates about gender, sexuality, and literary authority in America. Examining Dickinson's influence on Marianne Moore, Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop and others, Vivian R. Pollak complicates the connection between authorial biography and poetry that endures.
Becoming Canonical in American Poetry
Title | Becoming Canonical in American Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy Morris |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | American poetry |
ISBN | 9780252064289 |
Critical Companion to Emily Dickinson
Title | Critical Companion to Emily Dickinson PDF eBook |
Author | Sharon Leiter |
Publisher | Infobase Publishing |
Pages | 465 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Poets, American |
ISBN | 1438108435 |
Critical Companion to Emily Dickinson is an encyclopedic guide to the life and works of Emily Dickinson, one of the most famous and widely studied American poets of the 19th century.
Proofs of Genius
Title | Proofs of Genius PDF eBook |
Author | Amanda Gailey |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 173 |
Release | 2015-10-20 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 047212126X |
Proofs of Genius: Collected Editions from the American Revolution to the Digital Age is the first extensive study of the collected edition as an editorial genre within American literary history. Unlike editions of an author’s “selected works” or thematic anthologies, which clearly indicate the presence of non-authorial editorial intervention, collected editions have typically been arranged to imply an unmediated documentary completeness. By design, the collected edition obscures its own role in shaping the cultural reception of the author. In Proofs of Genius, Amanda Gailey argues that decisions to re-edit major authorial corpora are acts of canon-formation in miniature that indicate more foundational shifts in the way a culture views its literature and itself. By combining a theoretically-informed approach with a broad historical view of collected editions from the late eighteenth century to the present (including the rise of digital editions), Gailey fills a gap in the textual scholarship of the editing history of major figures like Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman and of the American literary canon itself.