Beschreibung

Emily Dickinson, A User's Guide presents a comprehensive introduction to the life and works of Emily Dickinson, Offers a richly appreciative biographical and critical introduction to America's most widely admired woman poet
Written by a world-renowned Emily Dickinson scholar and American literary critic
Represents the only book that reads Dickinson through her manuscripts, the print editions of her work, and the major digital Dickinson editions published since 1994
The User's Guide is a new kind of book for a new era of reading
Is the only book that is an introduction to the poet, her work, and her receptions among readers
Is the only book that presents new biography and textual discoveries that have just come to light in 2011
Interprets Dickinson through the dynamic interchange between the reader's sense of her life and her work
Draws on prominent critical views from the past century, including sentimental, modernist, new critical, psychological, feminist, queer, and postmodernist readings Considered among the first rank of American poets, Emily Dickinson was virtually unknown and unpublished (in the traditional sense of publishing) in her lifetime. Emily Dickinson: A User's Guide presents a comprehensive biographical and critical reflection of the life and writings of America's most widely admired woman poet. Martha Nell Smith, world-renowned Emily Dickinson scholar and American literary critic, introduces us to Dickinson's world, examines the current state of Dickinson studies, and offers groundbreaking new interpretations of Dickinson's works. Smith exposes modern readers to deep engagements with the three major digital resources on Dickinson's writings and her life, the poet's original manuscripts, and the innumerable print editions produced since the poet's death in1886. Emily Dickinson: A User's Guide offers an inspired and invaluable introduction to the life and works of one of the greatest of all English-language poets.

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Emily Dickinson, A User's Guide presents a comprehensive introduction to the life and works of Emily Dickinson, Offers a richly appreciative biographical and critical introduction to America's most widely admired woman poet
* Written by a world-renowned Emily Dickinson scholar and American literary critic
* Represents the only book that reads Dickinson through her manuscripts, the print editions of her work, and the major digital Dickinson editions published since 1994
* The User's Guide is a new kind of book for a new era of reading
* Is the only book that is an introduction to the poet, her work, and her receptions among readers
* Is the only book that presents new biography and textual discoveries that have just come to light in 2011
* Interprets Dickinson through the dynamic interchange between the reader's sense of her life and her work
* Draws on prominent critical views from the past century, including sentimental, modernist, new critical, psychological, feminist, queer, and postmodernist readings