Emily Dickinson and her contemporaries : women's verse in America, 1820-1885

Emily Dickinson and her contemporaries : women's verse in America, 1820-1885 / Elizabeth A. Petrino.

Elizabeth A. Petrino places the Belle of Amherst within the context of other nineteenth-century women poets and examines the feminist implications of their work. Dickinson and contemporaries like Lydia Sigourney, Louisa May Alcott, and Helen Hunt Jackson developed in their writing a rhetoric of dupl...

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Main Author: Petrino, Elizabeth A., 1962-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, ©1998.
Subjects:
Dickinson, Emily, > 1830-1886 > Criticism and interpretation.
Dickinson, Emily, > 1830-1886 > Contemporaries.
Women and literature > United States > History > 19th century.
American poetry > Women authors > History and criticism.
American poetry > 19th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: A heritage of poets and the literary tradition
  • "This--Was a poet": Emily Dickinson and nineteenth-century publishing standards
  • "Feet so precious charged": Dickinson, Sigourney, and the child elegy
  • "Alabaster chambers": Dickinson, epitaphs, and the culture of mourning
  • "Paradise persuaded": Dickson, Osgood, and the language of flowers
  • "Fame of myself": Dickinson, Jackson, and the question of female authorship
  • Seeing "New Englandly": Dickinson and nineteenth-century American women's poetry.

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