The Cambridge Introduction to Emily Dickinson Cambridge Introductions to Literature 1st Edition by Wendy Martin 0521856701 9780521856706

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ISBN 10: 0521856701

ISBN 13: 9780521856706

Author: Wendy Martin

Emily Dickinson is best known as an intensely private, even reclusive writer. Yet the way she has been mythologised has meant her work is often misunderstood. This introduction delves behind the myth to present a poet who was deeply engaged with the issues of her day. In a lucid and elegant style, the book places her life and work in the historical context of the Civil War, the suffrage movement, and the rapid industrialisation of the United States. Wendy Martin explores the ways in which Dickinson’s personal struggles with romantic love, religious faith, friendship and community shape her poetry. The complex publication history of her works, as well as their reception, is teased out, and a guide to further reading is included. Dickinson emerges not only as one of America’s finest poets, but also as a fiercely independent intellect and an original talent writing poetry far ahead of her time.

The Cambridge Introduction to Emily Dickinson Cambridge Introductions to Literature 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1 Life
The Dickinson family
A portrait of the poet as a young girl
Early ambitions, difficult changes
Preceptors
“Sister Sue”
A “Woman – white – to be”

Chapter 2 Context
Religious culture: Puritanism, the Great Awakenings, and revivals
Industrialization and the individual
Political culture: expansion and the antebellum period
Social movements: Abolition and women’s rights
Philosophical reactions: Transcendentalism
The Civil War

Chapter 3 Works
Sweeping with many-colored brooms: the influence of the domestic
Blasphemous devotion: biblical allusion in the poems and letters
“Easy, quite, to love”: friendship and love in Dickinson’s life and works
“The Heaven – below”: nature poems
“A Riddle, at the last”: death and immortality

Chapter 4 Reception
“The Auction Of the Mind”: publication history
Editing the poems and letters
Early reception
New Criticism
Dickinson’s legacy today

Notes
1 Life
2 Context
3 Works
4 Reception

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