Reading Emily Dickinson's Letters

by Eberwein, Jane Donahue; Mackenzie, Cindy

• ISBN13: 9781558497412
• ISBN10: 1558497412
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-12-31
• Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Pr

Summary

Original essays explore a brilliant poet's written correspondence

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Editors' Introduction	p. 1
"This is my letter to the World": Emily Dickinson's Epistolary Poetics	p. 11
Dickinson's Correspondence and the Politics of Gift-Based Circulation	p. 28
"Blossom[s] of the Brain": Women's Culture and the Poetics of Emily Dickinson's Correspondence	p. 56
"Saying nothingà sometimes says the Most": Dickinson's Letters to Catherine Dickinson Sweetser	p. 80
Messages of Condolence: "more Peace than Pang"	p. 100
"What are you reading now? ": Emily Dickinson's Epistolary Book Club	p. 126
Emily Dickinson and Marriage: "The Etruscan Experiment"	p. 161
Heritable Heaven: Erotic Properties in the Dickinson-Lord Correspondence	p. 189
Alliteration, Emphasis, and Spatial Prosody in Dickinsons Manuscript Letters	p. 213
A Hazard of a Letter s Fortunes: Epistolarity and the Technology of Audience in Emily Dickinson's Correspondences	p. 239
Works Cited	p. 257
Notes on Contributors	p. 271
Index	p. 275
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