Debates about editorial proprieties have been at the center of Emily Dickinson scholarship since the 1981 publication of the two-volume Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson, edited by Ralph W. Franklin. Many critics have since investigated the possibility that autograph poems might have primacy over their printed versions, and it has been suggested that to read Dickinson in any standard typographic edition is effectively to read her in translation, at one remove from her actual practices. More specifically, it has been claimed that line arrangements, the shape of words and letters, and the...
Debates about editorial proprieties have been at the center of Emily Dickinson scholarship since the 1981 publication of the two-volume Manuscript ...
Emily Dickinson has often been pictured as a sensitive but isolated poet -- someone who published very little in her lifetime and limited herself to lyrics, considered to be the kind of poems most removed from social and political life. In recent years, scholars have challenged that view, and this book extends the discussion in valuable new directions.Domhnall Mitchell begins by focusing on three historical phenomena -- the railroad, the Dickinson Homestead, and horticulture -- and argues that poems about trains, home, and flowers engage with their meanings in ways that extend beyond the...
Emily Dickinson has often been pictured as a sensitive but isolated poet -- someone who published very little in her lifetime and limited herself to l...
Emily Dickinson's poetry is known and read worldwide but to date there have been no studies of her reception and influence outside America. This collection of essays brings together international research on her reception abroad including translations, circulation and the responses of private and professional readers to her poetry in different countries. The contributors address key translations of individual poems and lyric sequences; Dickinson's influence on other writers, poets and culture more broadly; biographical constructions of Dickinson as a poet; the political cultural and...
Emily Dickinson's poetry is known and read worldwide but to date there have been no studies of her reception and influence outside America. This co...
