| Description |
x, 148 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Cambridge introductions to literature |
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Cambridge introductions to literature.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 132-143) and index. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Note and abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Life -- The Dickinson family -- A portrait of the poet as a young girl -- Early ambitions, difficult changes -- Preceptors -- "Sister Sue" -- A "Woman -- white -- to be" -- Chapter 2 Context -- Religious culture: Puritanism, the Great Awakenings, and revivals -- Industrialization and the individual -- Political culture: expansion and the antebellum period -- Social movements: Abolition and women's rights -- Philosophical reactions: Transcendentalism -- The Civil War -- Chapter 3 Works -- Sweeping with many-colored brooms: the influence of the domestic -- Blasphemous devotion: biblical allusion in the poems and letters -- "Easy, quite, to love": friendship and love in Dickinson's life and works -- "The Heaven -- below": nature poems -- "A Riddle, at the last": death and immortality -- Chapter 4 Reception -- "The Auction Of the Mind": publication history -- Editing the poems and letters -- Early reception -- New Criticism -- Dickinson's legacy today -- Notes -- 1 Life -- 2 Context -- 3 Works -- 4 Reception -- Guide to further reading -- Index -- Last Page. |
| Subject |
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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| ISBN |
0521856701 hardback |
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9780521856706 hardback |
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0521672708 paperback |
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9780521672702 paperback |
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