Description: Our Emily Dickinsons : American Women Poets and the Intimacies of Difference, Hardcover by Pollak, Vivian R., ISBN 0812248449, ISBN-13 9780812248449, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US
For Vivian R. Pollak, Emily Dickinsons work is an extended meditation on the risks of social, psychological, and aesthetic difference that would be taken up by the generations of women poets who followed her. She situates Dickinsons originality in relation to her nineteenth-century audiences, including poet, novelist, and Indian rights activist Helen Hunt Jackson and her controversial first editor, Mabel Loomis Todd, and traces the emergence of competing versions of a brilliant but troubled Dickinson in the twentieth century, especially in the writings of Marianne Moore, Sylvia Plath, and Elizabeth Bishop.
Pollak reveals the wide range of emotions exhibited by women poets toward Dickinsons achievement and chronicles how their attitudes toward her changed over time. She contends, however, that they consistently use Dickinson to clarify personal and professional battles of their own. Reading poems, letters, diaries, journals, interviews, drafts of published and unpublished work, and other historically specific primary sources, Pollak tracks nineteenth- and twentieth-century women poets ambivalence toward a literary tradition that overvalued lyrics inwardness and undervalued the power of social connection.
Our Emily Dickinsons places Dickinsons life and work within the context of larger debates about gender, sexuality, and literary authority in America and complicates the connections between creative expression, authorial biography, audience reception, and literary genealogy.
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Book Title: Our Emily Dickinsons : American Women Poets and the Intimacies of
Number of Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Our Emily Dickinsons : American Women Poets and the Intimacies of Difference
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Subject: Women Authors, American / General, Poetry, Literary
Publication Year: 2016
Item Height: 1.3 in
Item Weight: 27.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.3 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Poetry, Biography & Autobiography
Author: Vivian R. Pollak
Item Width: 6.4 in
Series: Haney Foundation Ser.
Format: Hardcover
