The sublime of intense sociability
Subtitle: Emily Dickinson, H.D., and Gertrude Stein
By: Shawn Alfrey.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Lewisburg, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
Subjects: Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Criticism and interpretation.; H. D. 1886-1961 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 -- Criticism and interpretation.; American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Sublime, The, in literature.; Women and literature -- United States -- History.; Modernism (Literature) -- United States.; Social interaction in literature.; Socialization in literature.
Description: "This book explores how Emily Dickinson, H.D., and Gertrude Stein each develop strategies that allow them to access the inspiration and poetic knowledge known as the sublime while at the same time rejecting its traditional structure of domination and violence.

Consciously writing "as women," these writers inscribe the sublime with values of empathy and intersubjectivity associated with women's psychological development, values not usually accommodated by the history of the sublime or by modernist American culture."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-179) and index.