The New Emily Dickinson Studies

Michelle Kohler

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN:
  9781108480307
• eBook ISBN:
  9781108572170
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: North American Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

This collection presents new approaches to Emily Dickinson's oeuvre. Informed by twenty-first-century critical developments, the Dickinson that emerges here is embedded in and susceptible to a very physical world, and caught in unceasing interactions and circulation that she does not control. The volume's essays offer fresh readings of Dickinson's poetry through such new critical lenses as historical poetics, ecocriticism, animal studies, sound studies, new materialism, posthumanism, object-oriented feminism, disability studies, queer theory, race studies, race and contemporary poetics, digital humanities, and globalism. These essays address what it means to read Dickinson in braille, online, graffitied, and internationally, alongside the work of poets of color. Taken together, this book widens our understanding of Dickinson's readerships, of what the poems can mean, and for whom.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations and Textual Note
• Introduction: Dickinson Dispersed
• Part I Poetics and the Imagination
• Part II Theoretical Frameworks
• Part III Nineteenth-Century Histories
• Part IV Receptions, Archives, Readerships
• Suggested Further Reading
• Index