Rowing in Eden : : Rereading Emily Dickinson / / Martha Nell Smith.
Emily Dickinson wrote a "letter to the world" and left it lying in her drawer more than a century ago. This widely admired epistle was her poems, which were never conventionally published in book form during her lifetime. Since the posthumous discovery of her work, general readers and lite...
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Smith, Martha Nell, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Rowing in Eden : Rereading Emily Dickinson / Martha Nell Smith. Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021] ©1992 1 online resource (300 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One. To Fill a Gap: Erasures, Disguises, Definitions -- Two. Rowing in Eden: Reading Dickinson Reading -- Three. All Men Say "What" to Me: Sexual Identity and Problems of Literary Creativity -- Four. With the Exception of Shakespeare Reconstructing Dickinson's Relationship with Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson -- Five. To Be Susan Is Imagination: Dickinson's Poetry Workshop -- Six. Fame Is a Fickle Food: "Sister Sue" as Producer of Poems -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Emily Dickinson wrote a "letter to the world" and left it lying in her drawer more than a century ago. This widely admired epistle was her poems, which were never conventionally published in book form during her lifetime. Since the posthumous discovery of her work, general readers and literary scholars alike have puzzled over this paradox of wanting to communicate widely and yet apparently refusing to publish. In this pathbreaking study, Martha Nell Smith unravels the paradox by boldly recasting two of the oldest and still most frequently asked questions about Emily Dickinson: Why didn't she publish more poems while she was alive? and Who was her most important contemporary audience? Regarding the question of publication, Smith urges a reconception of the act of publication itself. She argues that Dickinson did publish her work in letters and in forty manuscript books that circulated among a cultured network of correspondents, most important of whom was her sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson. Rather than considering this material unpublished because unprinted, Smith views its alternative publication as a conscious strategy on the poet's part, a daring poetic experiment that also included Dickinson's unusual punctuation, line breaks, stanza divisions, calligraphic orthography, and bookmaking—all the characteristics that later editors tried to standardize or eliminate in preparing the poems for printing. Dickinson's relationship with her most important reader, Sue Dickinson, has also been lost or distorted by multiple levels of censorship, Smith finds. Emphasizing the poet-sustaining aspects of the passionate bonds between the two women, Smith shows that their relationship was both textual and sexual. Based on study of the actual holograph poems, Smith reveals the extent of Sue Dickinson's collaboration in the production of poems, most notably "Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers." This finding will surely challenge the popular conception of the isolated, withdrawn Emily Dickinson. Well-versed in poststructuralist, feminist, and new textual criticism, Rowing in Eden uncovers the process by which the conventional portrait of Emily Dickinson was drawn and offers readers a chance to go back to original letters and poems and look at the poet and her work through new eyes. It will be of great interest to a wide audience in literary and feminist studies. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022) Dickinson, Emily - Criticism and interpretation. Dickinson, Emily Criticism and interpretation. LITERARY CRITICISM / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000 9783110745351 https://doi.org/10.7560/720848 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292767942 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292767942/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One. To Fill a Gap: Erasures, Disguises, Definitions -- Two. Rowing in Eden: Reading Dickinson Reading -- Three. All Men Say "What" to Me: Sexual Identity and Problems of Literary Creativity -- Four. With the Exception of Shakespeare Reconstructing Dickinson's Relationship with Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson -- Five. To Be Susan Is Imagination: Dickinson's Poetry Workshop -- Six. Fame Is a Fickle Food: "Sister Sue" as Producer of Poems -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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