Victoria N Morgan

The Poetry of Emily Dickinson

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Produktbeschreibung

Taking readers through the various stages of criticism of Emily Dickinson's poetry, this guide identifies both the essential critical texts and the key debates within them. The texts chosen for discussion represent the canonical readings which have typically shaped the area of Dickinson studies throughout the twentieth- and twenty-first century and provide a lens through which to view current critical trends. Chapters focus on style and meaning, gender and sexuality, history and race, religion and hymn culture, and performance and popular culture. In all, this guide serves as a user-friendly reference tool to the vast body of criticism on Dickinson to date by suggesting formative starting points and underlining essential critical highlights. It provides students and scholars of Dickinson with a sense of where these critical texts can be placed in relation to one another, as well as an understanding of pivotal moments within the history of reception of Dickinson from late nineteenth-century reviews up to some of the definitive critical interventions of the twenty-first century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781350380073
• ISBN-10: 1350380075
• Artikelnr.: 70273691

Autorenporträt

Dr Victoria N. Morgan is a researcher and scholar of nineteenth-century women's writing, hymnology, religion, and devotional verse. She has published various books and articles in these areas and is the author of Emily Dickinson and Hymn Culture: Tradition and Experience (2010; 2016) and co-editor of Shaping Belief: Culture, Politics and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Writing (2008). She has taught widely on English and American Literature at the University of Liverpool, Liverpool Hope University, and most recently at the University of East Anglia, U.K.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Biographies and publication 1.1 Biographers
1.2 Dickinson as poet: Self-publication and early publication 2. Style and
Meaning 2.1 Early criticism 2.2 Later revaluations 3 The female tradition,
gender and sexuality 3.1 The female tradition 3.2 Writing the body 3.3
Queering Dickinson 4 History, Civil War and race 4.1 Historicizing
Dickinson 4.2 The US Civil War 4.3 Dickinson, ethnicity and race 5 Religion
and hymn culture 5.1 Rejecting orthodoxy 5.2 Religion and aesthetics 5.3
Dickinson and hymnody 6 Performance and reception 6.1 Performance in
Dickinson's Poetry 6.2 Dickinson and popular Culture 6.3 Digital Dickinson
and international reception Conclusion Bibliography Index