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A vice for voices
Book • 2001
“A Vice for Voices: Reading Emily Dickinson’s Correspondence” offers a detailed analysis of Emily Dickinson’s extensive letter writing, challenging the image of Dickinson as merely a reclusive poet by foregrounding her active engagement in epistolary exchanges.
Marietta Messmer traces Dickinson’s gradual shift from writing largely confessional, biographical letters to crafting increasingly fictionalized and experimental texts that blur the boundaries between letter, poem, and literary performance.
The book argues that Dickinson used her correspondence as a laboratory for developing a ‘vice for voices’—a complex, multivocal poetic persona—thereby redefining how readers understand the relationship between her life, letters, and poetry.
Marietta Messmer traces Dickinson’s gradual shift from writing largely confessional, biographical letters to crafting increasingly fictionalized and experimental texts that blur the boundaries between letter, poem, and literary performance.
The book argues that Dickinson used her correspondence as a laboratory for developing a ‘vice for voices’—a complex, multivocal poetic persona—thereby redefining how readers understand the relationship between her life, letters, and poetry.
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