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Emily Dickinson's Shakespeare
Book • 2006
Emily Dickinson's Shakespeare offers a detailed examination of how Emily Dickinson read, responded to, and imaginatively reworked the plays and poems of William Shakespeare.
Drawing on Dickinson’s marked copies of Shakespeare, her letters, and her poems, Páraic Finnerty traces the poet’s allusions to Shakespeare within the context of nineteenth-century American reading practices and bardic culture, demonstrating that Shakespeare was not only a favored author but also a central interlocutor for Dickinson’s meditations on love, power, performance, authorship, and identity.
The book situates Dickinson’s Shakespearean engagements within broader transatlantic literary networks, revealing how her admiration for the Bard shaped both her poetic techniques and her understanding of what it meant to be a modern poet.
Drawing on Dickinson’s marked copies of Shakespeare, her letters, and her poems, Páraic Finnerty traces the poet’s allusions to Shakespeare within the context of nineteenth-century American reading practices and bardic culture, demonstrating that Shakespeare was not only a favored author but also a central interlocutor for Dickinson’s meditations on love, power, performance, authorship, and identity.
The book situates Dickinson’s Shakespearean engagements within broader transatlantic literary networks, revealing how her admiration for the Bard shaped both her poetic techniques and her understanding of what it meant to be a modern poet.
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