Contributor
Richards, Eliza, editor of compilation.
ImprintCambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Descriptionxxii, 386 pages ; 24 cm
Note:Introduction / Eliza Richards -- Part I. Local environments -- 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 / PLraic Finnerty -- Renaissance and eighteenth-century literature / David Cody -- British Romantic and Victorian influences / Elizabeth A. Petrino -- Transatlantic women writers / PLraic Finnerty -- Immediate U.S. literary predecessors / Cristanne Miller -- U.S. literary contemporaries: Dickinson's moderns / Mary Loeffelholz -- Periodical reading / Joan Kirkby -- Part III. Social, cultural, political, and intellecutal contexts -- Religion / James McIntosh -- 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 / Magdalena Zapedowska -- Dickinson's influence / Thomas Gardner -- Translation and international reception / Domhnall Mitchell -- Further reading -- Index -- Index of Emily Dickinson's poems.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-368) and index.
Note: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.
