Reading Emily Dickinson s Letters Critical Essays 1st Edition by Jane Donahue Eberwein, Cynthia MacKenzie, Marietta Messmer ISBN ‎ 1558499016 ‎ 978-1558499010

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ISBN 10:  ‎ 1558499016  ‎

ISBN 13:  978-1558499010

Author: Jane Donahue Eberwein, Cynthia MacKenzie, Marietta Messmer

Emily Dickinson, who regarded a letter as “a joy of Earth,” was herself a gifted epistolary artistcryptic and allusive in style, dazzling in verbal effects, and sensitively attuned to the recipients of her many letters. In this volume, distinguished literary scholars focus intensively on Dickinson’s letter-writing and what her letters reveal about her poetics, her personal associations, and her self-awareness as a writer.

Although Dickinson’s letters have provided invaluable perspective for biographers and lovers of poetry since Mabel Loomis Todd published the first selection in 1894, today’s scholarly climate opens potential for fresh insights drawn from new theoretical approaches, informed cultural contextualizations, and rigorous examination of manuscript evidence. Essays in this collection explore ways that Emily Dickinson adapted nineteenth-century epistolary conventions of women’s culture, as well as how she directed her writing to particular readers, providing subtly tactful guidance to ways of approaching her poetics.

Close examination of her letters reveals the conscious artistry of Dickinson’s writing, from her auditory effects to her experiments with form and tone. Her well-known correspondences with Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Susan Dickinson, Helen Hunt Jackson, and Otis Phillips Lord are examined here, but so too are previously neglected family communications with her aunt Kate Sweetser and cousin Eugenia Montague. Contributors find in these various letters evidence of Dickinson’s enthusiastic participation in a sort of epistolary book club involving multiple friends, as well as her loving attentiveness to individuals in times of both suffering and joy. These inquiries highlight her thoughts on love, marriage, gender roles, art, and death, while unraveling mysteries ranging from legal discourse to Etruscan smiles.

In addition to a foreword by Marietta Messmer, the volume includes essays by Paul Crumbley, Karen Dandurand, Jane Donahue Eberwein, Judith Farr, James Guthrie, Ellen Louise Hart, Eleanor Heginbotham, Cindy MacKenzie, Martha Nell Smith, and Stephanie Tingley.

Table of contents: 

1. Foreword – Marietta Messmer

2. Acknowledgments

3. Editors’ Introduction

4. “This is my letter to the World”: Emily Dickinson’s Epistolary Poetics – Cindy Mackenzie

5. Dickinson’s Correspondence and the Politics of Gift-Based Circulation – Paul Crumbley

6. “Blossom[s] of the Brain”: Women’s Culture and the Poetics of Emily Dickinson’s Correspondence – Stephanie A. Tingley

7. “Saying nothing … sometimes says the Most”: Dickinson’s Letters to Catherine Dickinson Sweetser – Karen Dandurand

8. Messages of Condolence: “more Peace than Pang” – Jane Donahue Eberwein

9. “What are you reading now?”: Emily Dickinson’s Epistolary Book Club – Eleanor Heginbotham

10. Emily Dickinson and Marriage: “The Etruscan Experiment” – Judith Farr

11. Heritable Heaven: Erotic Properties in the Dickinson-Lord Correspondence – James Guthrie

12. Alliteration, Emphasis, and Spatial Prosody in Dickinson’s Manuscript Letters – Ellen Louise Hart

13. A Hazard of a Letter’s Fortunes: Epistolarity and the Technology of Audience in Emily Dickinson’s Correspondences – Martha Nell Smith

14. Works Cited

15. Notes on Contributors

16. Index

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