Emily Dickinson's rich conversation
Subtitle: poetry, philosophy, science
By: Richard E. Brantley
Series: Nineteenth Century Major Lives and Letters
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780230340633
Subjects: Philosophy in literature; Criticism and interpretation
Description: "Emily Dickinson's Rich Conversation: Poetry, Philosophy, Science is a comprehensive account of Emily Dickinson's aesthetic and intellectual life. Through her letters and poems, Richard E. Brantley identifies Dickinson's dialogue with John Locke's rational empiricism, Charles Darwin's evolutionary biology, Wordsworth's "natural methodism," Ralph Waldo Emerson's idealism, and European and American intellectual traditions. Contrary to the image of the isolated poet, this ambitious study reveals Dickinson's agile mind developing through conversation with a community of contemporaries"--Page four of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-258) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Proclaiming empiricism; title: Guiding experiment; title: Gaining loss; title: Despairing hope.