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The Cambridge introduction to Emily Dickinson /

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0521856701

9780521672702

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The Cambridge introduction to Emily Dickinson /

[Book]

Wendy Martin

New York :

Cambridge University Press,

2007

x, 148 pages ;

24 cm

Cambridge introductions to literature

Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-143) and index

Preface -- Note and abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Life -- The Dickinson family -- A portrait of the poet as a young girl -- Early ambitions, difficult changes -- Preceptors -- "Sister Sue" -- A "Woman -- white -- to be" -- Chapter 2 Context -- Religious culture: Puritanism, the Great Awakenings, and revivals -- Industrialization and the individual -- Political culture: expansion and the antebellum period -- Social movements: Abolition and women's rights -- Philosophical reactions: Transcendentalism -- The Civil War -- Chapter 3 Works -- Sweeping with many-colored brooms: the influence of the domestic -- Blasphemous devotion: biblical allusion in the poems and letters -- "Easy, quite, to love": friendship and love in Dickinson's life and works -- "The Heaven -- below": nature poems -- "A Riddle, at the last": death and immortality -- Chapter 4 Reception -- "The Auction Of the Mind": publication history -- Editing the poems and letters -- Early reception -- New Criticism -- Dickinson's legacy today -- Notes -- 1 Life -- 2 Context -- 3 Works -- 4 Reception -- Guide to further reading -- Index

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Dickinson, Emily,1830-1886-- Criticism and interpretation

Martin, Wendy,1940-

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