Winds of will
Subtitle: Emily Dickinson and the sovereignty of democratic thought
By: Paul Crumbley.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780817317034
Subjects: Dickinson, Emily, -- 1830-1886 -- Criticism and interpretation; Dickinson, Emily, -- 1830-1886 -- Political and social views; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the undecidability of Dickinson's politics; title: Assertions of sovereignty; title: Democratic rhetoric and the gymnastic self; title: Dickinson's uses of spiritualism: the "nature" of democratic belief; title: A version of fame: Dickinson's correspondence and the politics of gift-based circulation; title: Copyright, circulation, and the body.