Eberwein, Jane Donahue.

Reading Emily Dickinson's Letters : Critical Essays. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (311 pages)

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Editors' Introduction -- "This is my letter to the World": Emily Dickinson's Epistolary Poetics -- Dickinson's Correspondence and the Politics of Gift-Based Circulation -- "Blossom[s] of the Brain": Women's Culture and the Poetics of Emily Dickinson's Correspondence -- "Saying nothing . . . sometimes says the Most": Dickinson's Letters to Catherine Dickinson Sweetser -- Messages of Condolence: "more Peace than Pang" -- "What are you reading now?": Emily Dickinson's Epistolary Book Club -- Emily Dickinson and Marriage: "The Etruscan Experiment" -- Heritable Heaven: Erotic Properties in the Dickinson-Lord Correspondence -- Alliteration, Emphasis, and Spatial Prosody in Dickinson's Manuscript Letters -- A Hazard of a Letter's Fortunes: Epistolarity and the Technology of Audience in Emily Dickinson's Correspondences -- Works Cited -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.

9781613760192


Poets, American--19th century--Correspondence.


Electronic books.

PS1541.Z5 -- .R433 2009eb

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