Emily Dickinson

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© 1991

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Authors:

Joan Kirkby

Joan Kirkby

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Part of the book series: Women Writers (WW)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-viii

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Emily Dickinson’s Life: ‘I dwell in Possibility —’
- Joan Kirkby
Pages 1-18
The Grammar of the Self: ‘This loved Philology’
- Joan Kirkby
Pages 19-41
The Poetry of ‘As If’: ‘The real — fictitious seems’
- Joan Kirkby
Pages 42-63
Poems of Gender: ‘To hang our head — ostensibly —’
- Joan Kirkby
Pages 64-86
The Gothic Mode: ‘’Tis so appalling — it exhilarates —’
- Joan Kirkby
Pages 87-109
Nature Writings: ‘The dwelling earthward’
- Joan Kirkby
Pages 110-133
Dickinson Criticism: ‘Kinsmen of the Shelf’
- Joan Kirkby
Pages 134-148
Back Matter

Pages 149-163

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Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Emily Dickinson
Authors: Joan Kirkby
Series Title: Women Writers
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21307-8
Publisher: Red Globe Press London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Joan Kirkby 1991
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 163
Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave
Topics: Poetry and Poetics, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literature, general, Gender Studies

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