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Emily Dickinson and Her Culture - The Soul's Society (Paperback, Revised)
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Emily Dickinson and Her Culture - The Soul's Society (Paperback, Revised)
Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
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The great American poet Emily Dickinson has long been seen as a
figure isolated from her contemporaries and insulated from her
surrounding culture. This book attempts to place her texts in their
cultural contexts by exploring her attitude towards death, romance,
the afterlife, God, nature and art. Using pertinent parallels,
analogues, and glosses, it assesses her response to three levels of
general culture: elite, popular, and folk. It attempts to find
coherence in the entire canon of her poetry, and to reconstruct the
lost sensibility that produced it. The author stresses Dickinson's
visual acuity and the pictorial elements of her art, taking issue
with recent criticism, which has focused on that art's supposed
abstraction and 'scenelessness'. At its widest, the book is not
only a cultural biography of Emily Dickinson as an American
Victorian, but a biography of American Victorian culture itself,
where Dickinson emerges as a 'Representative Woman'.
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