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"So has a daisy vanished" : Emily Dickinson and tuberculosis / George Mamunes.

Author: Mamunes, George, 1938-

Imprint:Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2008.

Descriptionxi, 199 p. ; 23 cm.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-191) and index.

Bibliography Note:"Dickinson poems used in this work": p. 171-173.

Note:"Examines the ways in which Dickinson's literary style was affected by her experiences with tuberculosis. An in-depth discussion on 73 of Dickinson's poems provides readers with a fresh perspective on her notoriously shut-in lifestyle, her complicated relationship with the tuberculosis-stricken Benjamin Franklin Newton, and the possible real-life inspirations for her "terror since September.""--Provided by publisher.



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Mamunes, George, 1938-
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