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  • Editorial Note
  • James Guthrie

I am pleased to announce that the next Emily Dickinson Journal, coming out in fall 2017, will be devoted to the theme "Emily Dickinson and Literary Celebrity" with Paul Crumbley as guest editor. Contributors will include Elizabeth Petrino, Páraic Finnerty, Jane Wald, and Paul himself. The issue's topic builds upon presentations made during a panel Paul chaired, "Dickinson and Celebrity: The Angled Road of Literary Fame," at the 2016 EDIS International Conference in Paris.

Paul says of his theme, "Of Dickinson's many experiments with language, none have provoked greater curiosity and scholarly interest than her exploration of the literary life and the life of literature. Contributors to this special issue of the Emily Dickinson Journal demonstrate that Dickinson thought deeply about the nature of literary celebrity as part of a larger experiment in the kind of living and writing that would most effectively serve the aims of literary art." Having attended that session in Paris myself, I am looking forward to reading these essays.

This current issue of the Emily Dickinson Journal includes articles devoted to several intriguing topics: Dickinson's poems about big cats, her "planetary" arrangement of poems in one of her fascicles, and the mysterious appearance of Japanese flower species in her carefully maintained herbarium. We also present reviews of several recent scholarly works either focused upon or involving Dickinson's poetry, as well as of Terence Davies's recent movie about Dickinson's life, A Quiet Passion. I hope you will enjoy them. [End Page vii]

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