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1 online resource (xvii, 225 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Emily Dickinson's Gothic, the first full length study of Dickinson as a primarily gothic writer, is based upon a recognition of women's gothicism. Daneen Wardrop develops first a definition of the female gothic by reading Helene Cixous reading Freud reading E.T.A. Hoffmann on the uncanny. The result is a language based model for the gothic that exposes some of Dickinson's most encrypted figurations and coerced language, which she used to subvert cultural norms. |
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Emily Dickinson's Gothic also addresses sociohistorical concerns, from hallowed gothic conventions dating from Horace Walpole's eighteenth century to such modernist neogothic topics as rape, the void, and disjunctive language that appear in the latter nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Wardrop recognizes the full extent to which the gothic pervades Dickinson's canon and the means by which that gothic determines her aesthetic. Such full consideration of women's gothicism allows the placement of Dickinson within a literary context, both in terms of American writers and in terms of women writers. |
| Contents |
The haunted house -- The wedding -- The terms of rape -- Seeing double -- Seeing nothing -- Language and the reader. |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886.
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Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. (OCoLC)fst00035276
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Gothic revival (Literature) -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Supernatural in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
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Gothic revival (Literature) (OCoLC)fst00945084
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Supernatural in literature. (OCoLC)fst01138966
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Women and literature. (OCoLC)fst01177093
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wardrop, Daneen, 1952- Emily Dickinson's gothic. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1996 087745549X (DLC) 96010287 (OCoLC)34356801 |
| ISBN |
1587292467 (electronic bk.) |
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9781587292460 (electronic bk.) |
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