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Long untouched by contemporary events ideas and environments Emily Dickinson s writings have been the subject of intense historical research in recent years. This volume of thirty-three essays by leading scholars offers a comprehensive introduction to the contexts most important for the study of Dickinson s writings. While providing an overview of their topic the essays also present groundbreaking research and original arguments treating the poet s local environments literary influences social cultural political and intellectual contexts and reception. A resource for scholars and students of American literature and poetry in English the collection is an indispensable contribution to the study not only of Dickinson s writings but also of the contexts for poetic production and circulation more generally in the nineteenth-century United States.
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- ISBN 9781107022744
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Long untouched by contemporary events ideas and environments Emily Dickinson s writings have been the subject of intense historical research in recent years. This volume of thirty-three essays by leading scholars offers a comprehensive introduction to the contexts most important for the study of Dickinson s writings. While providing an overview of their topic the essays also present groundbreaking research and original arguments treating the poet s local environments literary influences social cultural political and intellectual contexts and reception. A resource for scholars and students of American literature and poetry in English the collection is an indispensable contribution to the study not only of Dickinson s writings but also of the contexts for poetic production and circulation more generally in the nineteenth-century United States.
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Long untouched by contemporary events ideas and environments Emily Dickinson s writings have been the subject of intense historical research in recent years. This volume of thirty-three essays by leading scholars offers a comprehensive introduction to the contexts most important for the study of Dickinson s writings. While providing an overview of their topic the essays also present groundbreaking research and original arguments treating the poet s local environments literary influences social cultural political and intellectual contexts and reception. A resource for scholars and students of American literature and poetry in English the collection is an indispensable contribution to the study not only of Dickinson s writings but also of the contexts for poetic production and circulation more generally in the nineteenth-century United States.
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Biography, Literature and Literary studies > Literature: history and criticism > Literary studies: poetry and poets
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Who is/are the Author/s of the book Emily Dickinson in Context?
Eliza Richards
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Emily Dickinson in Context is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781107022744)