Cargando…
The Cambridge introduction to Emily Dickinson /
Emily Dickinson is best known as an intensely private, even reclusive writer. Yet the way she has been mythologised has meant her work is often misunderstood. This introduction delves behind the myth to present a poet who was deeply engaged with the issues of her day. In a lucid and elegant style, t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
|
| Colección: | Cambridge introductions to literature.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- 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.