Emily Dickinson and hymn culture
Subtitle: tradition and experience
By: by Victoria N. Morgan.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780754669425
Subjects: Dickinson, Emily, -- 1830-1866 -- Knowledge -- Hymns; Dickinson, Emily, -- 1830-1886 -- Religion; Dickinson, Emily, -- 1830-1886 -- Literary style; Hymns, English -- History and criticism; Spirituality in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Twas as space sat singing to herself, and men" : situating Dickinson's relation to hymn culture; title: The hymn : a form of devotion?; title: Theorising hymnic space : language, subjectivity, and re-visioning the divine; title: Making the sublime ridiculous : Emily Dickinson and Isaac Watts; title: "The prospect oft my strength renews" : spiritual transport in the hymns of Phoebe Hinsdale Brown and Eliza Lee Follen; title: Tracing Dickinson's bee imagery; title: "Why floods be served to us in bowls, I speculate no more" : reading Dickinson's strategy.