Emily Dickinson in Context

Eliza Richards

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781107022744
• eBook ISBN: 9781107439382
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: North American Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Long untouched by contemporary events, ideas and environments, Emily Dickinson's writings have been the subject of intense historical research in recent years. This volume of thirty-three essays by leading scholars offers a comprehensive introduction to the contexts most important for the study of Dickinson's writings. While providing an overview of their topic, the essays also present groundbreaking research and original arguments, treating the poet's local environments, literary influences, social, cultural, political and intellectual contexts, and reception. A resource for scholars and students of American literature and poetry in English, the collection is an indispensable contribution to the study not only of Dickinson's writings but also of the contexts for poetic production and circulation more generally in the nineteenth-century United States.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Emily Dickinson in Context
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations and Textual Note
• Chronology
• Introduction
• PART i Local Environments
• PART ii Literary Contexts: Sources, Influences, Intertextual Engagements
• Part iii Social, Cultural, Political, and Intellectual Contexts
• PART iv Reception
• Further Reading
• Index