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Writing in Time : Emily Dickinson's Master Hours /

For more than half a century, the story of Emily Dickinson's "Master" documents has been the largely biographical tale of three letters to an unidentified individual. Writing in Time seeks to tell a different story--the story of the documents themselves. Rather than presenting the &qu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Werner, Marta L., 1964- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Amherst, MA] : Amherst College Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: To the reader
  • Historical introduction: The discovery, transmission, and printing histories of the "master letters"
  • Early printings
  • In the hour of the new bibliography
  • Homage to Ralph W. Franklin
  • Textual introduction: From letters to documents: Imagining a new edition of the "master" documents
  • Re-drawing the boundaries
  • Dating the "master" documents
  • Editing in space and time
  • Principles of transcription
  • Manuscript witnesses & transcriptions in time
  • Dear master / I am ill - (A 827)
  • The writing line, ca. spring 1858-ca. summer 1860
  • Mute - thy Coronation - (A 825)
  • The writing line, ca. autumn 1860-ca. winter 1861
  • Oh ' did I offend it - (A 829)
  • The writing line, ca. spring 1861
  • Master ./ If you saw a bullet (A 828)
  • Reading hours
  • Commentaries on the "master" documents
  • The hour of flowers: A 827
  • The hour of ermine: A 825
  • The hour of lead: A 829
  • The midnight hour: A 826
  • The queen's hour: A 828.