Title: Reading Emily Dickinson's letters : critical essays /
Authors: Eberwein, Jane Donahue, 1943-; MacKenzie, Cindy.
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Dickinson, Emily, Criticism and interpretation.; Poets, American Correspondence; American letters History and criticism.; Poetics History
Abstract: In this volume, distinguished literary scholars focus intensively on Dickinson's letter-writing and what her letters reveal about her poetics, her personal associations, and her self-awareness as a writer.
Contents: "This is my letter to the world": Emily Dickinson's epistolary poetics / Cindy Mackenzie -- Dickinson's correspondence and the politics of gift-based circulation / Paul Crumbley -- "Blossom(s) of the brain": women's culture and the poetics of Emily Dickinson's correspondence / Stephanie A. Tingley -- "Saying nothing-- sometimes says the most": Dickinson's letters to Catherine Dickinson Sweetser / Karen Dandurand -- Messages of condolence: "more peace than pang" / Jane Donahue Eberwein -- "What are you reading now?": Emily Dickinson's epistolary book club / Eleanor Heginbotham -- Emily Dickinson and marriage: "the etruscan experiment" / Judith Farr -- Heritable heaven: erotic properties in the Dickinson-Lord correspondence / James Guthrie -- Alliteration, emphasis, and spatial prosody in Dickinson's manuscript letters / Ellen Louise Hart -- A hazard of a letter's fortunes: epistolarity and the technology of audience in Emily Dickinson's correspondences / Martha Nell Smith.