Mary Loeffelholz is Professor and Special Advisor to the President for Faculty Affairs at Northeastern University. She is the author of From School to Salon: Reading Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Poetry (2004), Experimental Lives: Women and Literature, 1900–1945 (1992), Dickinson and the Boundaries of Feminist Theory (1991), and of a number of essays on nineteenth-century American poetry and culture. She is also editor of Studies in American Fiction and of Volume D, Between the Wars: 1914–1945 in the seventh edition of the Norton Anthology of American Literature.
Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Sources.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction (Martha Nell Smith and Mary Loeffelholz).
Part I: Biography – the Myth of “the Myth”.
1 Architecture of the Unseen (Aife Murray).
2 Fracturing a Master Narrative, Reconstructing “Sister Sue” (Ingrid Satelmajer).
3 Public, Private Spheres: What Reading Emily Dickinson’s Mail Taught me about Civil Wars (Martha Nell Smith).
4 “Pretty much all real life”: The Material World of the Dickinson Family (Jane Wald).
Part II: The Civil War – Historical and Political Contexts.
5 “Drums off the Phantom Battlements”: Dickinson’s War Poems in Discursive Context (Faith Barrett).
6 The Eagle’s Eye: Dickinson’s View of Battle (Renée Bergland).
7 “How News Must Feel When Traveling”: Dickinson and Civil War Media (Eliza Richards).
Part III: Cultural Contexts – Literature, Philosophy, Theology, Science.
8 Really Indigenous Productions: Emily Dickinson, Josiah Holland, and Nineteenth-Century Popular Verse (Mary Loeffelholz).
9 Thinking Dickinson Thinking Poetry (Virginia Jackson).
10 Dickinson and the Exception (Max Cavitch).
11 Dickinson’s Uses of Spiritualism: The “Nature” of Democratic Belief (Paul Crumbley).
12 “Forever – is Composed of Nows –”: Emily Dickinson’s Conception of Time (Gudrun M. Grabher).
13 God’s Place in Dickinson’s Ecology (Nancy Mayer).
Part IV: Textual Conditions: Manuscripts, Printings, Digital Surrogates.
14 Auntie Gus Felled It New (Tim Morris).
15 Reading Dickinson in Her Context: The Fascicles (Eleanor Elson Heginbotham).
16 The Poetics of Interruption: Dickinson, Death, and the Fascicles (Alexandra Socarides).
17 Climates of the Creative Process: Dickinson’s Epistolary Journal (Connie Ann Kirk).
18 Hearing the Visual Lines: How Manuscript Study Can Contribute to an Understanding of Dickinson’s Prosody (Ellen Louise Hart, with Sandra Chung).
19 “The Thews of Hymn”: Dickinson’s Metrical Grammar (Michael L. Manson).
20 Dickinson’s Structured Rhythms 391
Cristanne Miller
21 A Digital Regiving: Editing the Sweetest Messages
in the Dickinson Electronic Archives 415
Tanya Clement
22 Editing Dickinson in an Electronic Environment 437
Lara Vetter
Part V: Poetry & Media – Dickinson’s Legacies.
23 “Dare you see a soul at the White Heat?”: Thoughts on a “Little
Home-keeping Person” (Sandra M. Gilbert).
24 Re-Playing the Bible: My Emily Dickinson (Alicia Ostriker).
25 “For Flash and Click and Suddenness–”: Emily Dickinson and the Photography-Effect (Marta L. Werner).
26 "Zero to the Bone": Thelonious Monk, Emily Dickinson, and the Rhythms of Modernism (Joshua Weiner).
Index of First Lines.
Index of Letters of Emily Dickinson.
Index.
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