Changing rapture
Subtitle: Emily Dickinson's poetic development
By: Aliki Barnstone
Publisher: University Press of New England
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Hanover
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9781584655343
Subjects: Dickinson, Emily, -- 1830-1886 -- Criticism and interpretation
Description: "Aliki Barnstone challenges the common assumption that Emily Dickinson's poetry did not change and evolve over the course of her career as a poet. She argues that this notion of her lack of development, while it contributes to the established myth of the isolated and timeless Dickinson, has tended to diminish our appreciation of her as a poet and thinker whose work is both an innovative artistic achievement and a cultural commentary. Throughout the book, Barnstone contextualizes Dickinson's evolving spiritual and poetic development within nineteenth-century American culture."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-177) and indexes
Table of contents: title: "Burglar! banker-father!" : renaming God through satire; title: Mastering the master : appropriations of crisis conversion in the poems of 1863; title: The adventure of self : transforming Calvinism and Emerson's transcendentalism; title: "They shut me up in prose" : late letter-poems