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Emily Dickinson's readings of men and books
Sacred soundings
Book • 1990
“Emily Dickinson's Readings of Men and Books: Sacred Soundings” is a critical study that reconstructs Emily Dickinson’s intellectual and spiritual world through the books and authors she read, with particular attention to male writers and sacred texts.
Benjamin Lease examines how this extensive reading informed Dickinson’s poetic practice, her religious imagination, and her negotiations with authority, tracing echoes, allusions, and argumentative dialogues between her poems and the theological, philosophical, and literary works in her milieu.
The book situates Dickinson within nineteenth‑century American culture while arguing for the depth and complexity of her responses to the “men and books” that surrounded her.
Benjamin Lease examines how this extensive reading informed Dickinson’s poetic practice, her religious imagination, and her negotiations with authority, tracing echoes, allusions, and argumentative dialogues between her poems and the theological, philosophical, and literary works in her milieu.
The book situates Dickinson within nineteenth‑century American culture while arguing for the depth and complexity of her responses to the “men and books” that surrounded her.
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