"Dickinson's Misery" is our luxury. This rich and rewarding study
uncovers intellectual value where no one thought to look for it
before: in the envelopes, clippings, pictures, flowers, and dead
insects that so often accompanied a Dickinson lyric. A lively,
mischievous, and memorable book."--Diana Fuss, Princeton, author of
"The Sense of an Interior: Four Writers and the Rooms that Shaped
Them" and "Essentially Speaking: Feminism, Nature, and Difference,"
""Dickinson's Misery" stunningly combines scrupulous historical
and theoretical explorations of Dickinson's bizarre poetic
practices, and in so doing it opens the most fundamental questions
about what critics and readers since Dickinson have come to call
the "lyric." Future writing on poetry in nineteenth-century America
and on the nature of lyric and lyrical reading will need to address
Jackson's searching arguments."--Jonathan Culler, Cornell
University, author of "On Deconstruction"
"Who doubts that Emily Dickinson wrote lyric poems? Yet this
turns out to be one of those truisms that dissolves in the face of
simple attention. By showing how much we normalize the strange
things that Dickinson wrote precisely by reading them as lyrics,
Jackson has written a book that earns its subtitle: a theory of
lyric reading. This is one of the most inventive and observant
books yet written on Dickinson, but it is more than that: I know of
no better study of the performative character of reading, nor of
any book that does more to open our eyes to just how little we know
about the range of genres and styles of reading in the
past."--Michael Warner, Rutgers University
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