Emily Dickinson's Rich Conversation [electronic resource] : Poetry, Philosophy, Science /
Brantley, R.author.
Emily Dickinson's Rich Conversation is a comprehensive account of Emily Dickinson's aesthetic and intellectual life. Contrary to the image of the isolated poet, this ambitious study reveals Dickinson's agile mind developing through conversation with a community of contemporaries.
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""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments                      ""; ""List of Abbreviations                            ""; ""Introduction                   ""; ""Part I Gathering Experience                                  ""; ""1 Proclaiming Empiricism                               ""; ""2 Guiding Experiment                           ""; ""Part II Extending Experience                                   ""; ""3 Gaining Loss                     ""; ""4 Despairing Hope                        ""; ""Conclusion                 ""
""Appendix A Empiricism and Evangelicalism: A Combination of Romanticism                                                                             """"Appendix B Locke and Wesley: An Essence of Influence                                                           ""; ""Appendix C Wadsworth and Dickinson: A Marriage of Minds                                                              ""; ""Notes            ""; ""Works Cited                  ""; ""Index of Poems Cited                           ""; ""Index            ""
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Emily Dickinson's Rich Conversation is a comprehensive account of Emily Dickinson's aesthetic and intellectual life. Contrary to the image of the isolated poet, this ambitious study reveals Dickinson's agile mind developing through conversation with a community of contemporaries.
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886
Literature—History and criticism.
America—Literatures.
Poetry.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
Literary History.
North American Literature.
Poetry and Poetics.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.