Vivian R Pollak

Our Emily Dickinsons

American Women Poets and the Intimacies of Difference

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Our Emily Dickinsons situates Dickinson's life and work within larger debates about gender, sexuality, and literary authority in America. Examining Dickinson's influence on Marianne Moore, Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop and others, Vivian R. Pollak complicates the connection between authorial biography and poetry that endures.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780812248449
• ISBN-10: 0812248449
• Artikelnr.: 44828472

Autorenporträt

Vivian R. Pollak is Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. She is author of Dickinson: The Anxiety of Gender and The Erotic Whitman.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations
Introduction. Dickinson and the Demands of Intimacy
Chapter 1. Helen Hunt Jackson and Dickinson's Personal Publics
Chapter 2. Mabel Loomis Todd and Dickinson's Art of Sincerity
Chapter 3. "The Wholesomeness of the Life": Marianne Moore's Unartificial
Dickinson
Chapter 4. Moore, Plath, Hughes, and "The Literary Life"
Chapter 5. Plath's Dickinson: On Not Stopping for Death
Chapter 6. Elizabeth Bishop and the U.S.A. Schools of Writing
Conclusion. Dickinson and the Demands of Difference
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Acknowledgments