St Armand Barton Levi, Barton L. St Armand, Barton Levi St Armand

Emily Dickinson and Her Culture

The Soul's Society

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Emily Dickinson has long been seen as a figure isolated from her contemporaries and insulated from her surrounding culture. This book attempts to place her texts in their cultural contexts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 622g
• ISBN-13: 9780521339780
• ISBN-10: 0521339782
• Artikelnr.: 26010401

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Apologia: an art of assemblage
1. Keepsakes: Mary Warner's scrapbook
2. Dark parade: Dickinson, Sigourney, and the Victorian way of death
3. Kindred spirits: Dickinson, Stowe, and the wars of romance
4. Paradise deferred
Dickinson, Phelps, and the image of heaven
5. American grotesque: Dickinson, God, and folk forms
6. The earthly paradise: Dickinson, Ruskin, and Victorian aesthetics
8. The art of peace: Dickinson, sunsets, and the sublime
Appendices
Notes
Index.