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Reading in time
Book • 2012
“Reading in Time: Emily Dickinson in the Nineteenth Century” offers new ways of understanding Emily Dickinson by placing her poetry firmly within the literary and cultural contexts of her own century.
Cristanne Miller argues that Dickinson’s verse is formally much closer to the short-lined poetry she encountered in schoolbooks, periodicals, and single-author volumes than is usually recognized, and that her modes of writing, circulating, and preserving poems changed significantly around 1865, when the majority of her poems had already been composed.
The study relates Dickinson’s work to contemporary experiments with lyric, ballad, and early free verse, examines her responses to American Orientalism and the Civil War, and offers new accounts of her compositional patterns and poetic practice, challenging modern assumptions that rely too heavily on her late manuscripts.
Cristanne Miller argues that Dickinson’s verse is formally much closer to the short-lined poetry she encountered in schoolbooks, periodicals, and single-author volumes than is usually recognized, and that her modes of writing, circulating, and preserving poems changed significantly around 1865, when the majority of her poems had already been composed.
The study relates Dickinson’s work to contemporary experiments with lyric, ballad, and early free verse, examines her responses to American Orientalism and the Civil War, and offers new accounts of her compositional patterns and poetic practice, challenging modern assumptions that rely too heavily on her late manuscripts.
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Emily Dickinson (Archive Episode)
