Reading Emily Dickinson's Letters: Critical Essays - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1558499016 ISBN 13: 9781558499010

Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press, 2011

Synopsis

Essays in this collection explore ways that Emily Dickinson adapted nineteenth-century epistolary conventions of women’s culture, as well as how she directed her writing to particular readers, providing subtly tactful guidance to ways of approaching her poetics.

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Review:

"It is high time for renewed large-scale attention to Dickinson's letters and this volume provides a marvelously up-to-date range of critical, theoretical, and pragmatic responses to the personal, social, cultural, and poetic functions of her letter-writing. The contributors include many of the most highly respected Dickinson scholars, and many of the essays will be useful for the classroom as well as for scholars." - Cristanne Miller, author of Emily Dickinson: A Poet's Grammar"

About the Author:

Jane Donahue Eberwein is author of Dickinson: Strategies of Limitation and editor of An Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia. Cindy MacKenzie is author of A Concordance to the Letters of Emily Dickinson and coeditor of Wider than the Sky: Essays and Meditations on the Healing Power of Emily Dickinson

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1558499016
• ISBN 13: 9781558499010
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312
• Editor: Eberwein Jane Donahue, MacKenzie Cindy