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Considered among the first rank of American poets, Emily Dickinson was virtually unknown and unpublished (in the traditional sense of publishing) in her lifetime. Emily Dickinson: A User's Guide presents a comprehensive biographical and critical reflection of the life and writings of America's most widely admired woman poet. Martha Nell Smith, world-renowned Emily Dickinson scholar and American literary critic, introduces us to Dickinson's world, examines the current state of Dickinson studies, and offers groundbreaking new interpretations of Dickinson's works. Smith exposes modern readers to…mehr

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Considered among the first rank of American poets, Emily Dickinson was virtually unknown and unpublished (in the traditional sense of publishing) in her lifetime. Emily Dickinson: A User's Guide presents a comprehensive biographical and critical reflection of the life and writings of America's most widely admired woman poet. Martha Nell Smith, world-renowned Emily Dickinson scholar and American literary critic, introduces us to Dickinson's world, examines the current state of Dickinson studies, and offers groundbreaking new interpretations of Dickinson's works. Smith exposes modern readers to deep engagements with the three major digital resources on Dickinson's writings and her life, the poet's original manuscripts, and the innumerable print editions produced since the poet's death in1886. Emily Dickinson: A User's Guide offers an inspired and invaluable introduction to the life and works of one of the greatest of all English-language poets.
Emily Dickinson, A User's Guide presents acomprehensive introduction to the life and works of EmilyDickinson, Offers a richly appreciative biographical and criticalintroduction to America's most widely admired woman poet
Written by a world-renowned Emily Dickinson scholar andAmerican literary critic
Represents the only book that reads Dickinson through hermanuscripts, the print editions of her work, and the major digitalDickinson editions published since 1994
The User's Guide is a new kind of book for a newera of reading
Is the only book that is an introduction to the poet, her work,and her receptions among readers
Is the only book that presents new biography and textualdiscoveries that have just come to light in 2011
Interprets Dickinson through the dynamic interchangebetween the reader's sense of her life and her work
Draws on prominent critical views from the past century,including sentimental, modernist, new critical, psychological,feminist, queer, and postmodernist readings
Autorenporträt
Martha Nell Smith is Professor of English and Founding Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities at the University of Maryland. Her numerous publications include three award-winning books--Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Dickinson (1998), Comic Power in Emily Dickinson (1993), Rowing in Eden: Rereading Emily Dickinson (1992)--and over 30 journal articles. The recipient of numerous awards for her work on Dickinson and in new media, Smith is also Coordinator and Executive Editor of the Dickinson Electronic Archives projects at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) at the University of Virginia.