Reading Emily Dickinson's letters
Subtitle: critical essays
By: edited by Jane Donahue Eberwein and Cindy MacKenzie
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Amherst, [Mass.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9781558497412
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-270) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: "This is my letter to the world": Emily Dickinson's epistolary poetics / Cindy Mackenzie; title: Dickinson's correspondence and the politics of gift-based circulation / Paul Crumbley; title: "Blossom[s] of the brain": women's culture and the poetics of Emily Dickinson's correspondence / Stephanie Tingley; title: "Saying nothing . . . sometimes says the most": Dickinson's letters to Catherine Dickinson Sweetser / Karen Dandurand; title: Messages of condolence: "more peace than pang" / Jane Donahue Eberwein; title: "What are you reading now?": Emily Dickinson's epistolary book club / Eleanor Heginbotham; title: Emily Dickinson and marriage: "the etruscan experiment" / Judith Farr; title: Heritable heaven: erotic properties in the Dickinson-Lord correspondence / James Guthrie; title: Alliteration, emphasis, and spatial prosody in Dickinson's manuscript letters / Ellen Louise Hart; title: A hazard of a letter's fortunes: epistolarity and the technology of audience in Emily Dickinson's correspondences / Martha Nell Smith.