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Emily Dickinson: A User's Guide
Contributor(s): Smith, Martha Nell (Author)
ISBN: 1405147202     ISBN-13: 9781405147200
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
OUR PRICE:   $71.20  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: April 2024
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Poetry
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Literary Criticism | American - General
Dewey: 811.4
LCCN: PS1541
Physical Information: 192 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
Emily Dickinson, A User's Guide presents a comprehensive introduction to the life and works of Emily Dickinson, Offers a richly appreciative biographical and critical introduction to America's most widely admired woman poet
  • Written by a world-renowned Emily Dickinson scholar and American literary critic
  • Represents the only book that reads Dickinson through her manuscripts, the print editions of her work, and the major digital Dickinson editions published since 1994
  • The User's Guide is a new kind of book for a new era 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 textual discoveries that have just come to light in 2011
  • Interprets Dickinson through the dynamic interchange between 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