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- Dickinson's Fascicles: A Spectrum of Possibilities
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- 2014
- Published by: The Ohio State University Press
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Dickinson’s Fascicles: A Spectrum of Possibilities is the first collection of essays dedicated exclusively to re-examining Emily Dickinson’s fascicles, the extant forty hand-crafted manuscript “books” consisting of the roughly 814 poems crafted during the most productive period in Dickinson’s writing life (1858-1864). Why Dickinson carefully preserved the fascicles despite her meticulous destruction of many of her early manuscript drafts is the central question contributors to this volume seek to answer. The collection opens with a central portion of Sharon Cameron’s 1992 book that was the first to abandon the until-then popular search for a single unifying narrative to explain the fascicles, inaugurating a new era of fascicle scholarship. Eight prominent Dickinson scholars contribute essays to this volume and respond vigorously and variously to Cameron's argument, proposing, for instance, that the fascicles represent Dickinson's engagement with the world around her, particularly with the Civil War, and that they demonstrate her continued experimentation with poetic form. Dickinson’s Fascicles is edited by Paul Crumbley and Eleanor Elson Heginbotham. Other contributors include Paula Bernat Bennett, Martha Nell Smith, Domhnall Mitchell, Ellen Louise Hart, Melanie Hubbard, and Alexandra Socarides who assess what constitutes a vast final frontier in the Dickinson literary landscape. Susan Howe provides a coda.
Table of Contents
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- List of Illustrations
- pp. vii-viii
- List of Abbreviations
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xiv
- 1. Dickinson's Fascicles
- pp. 12-32
- 4. The Precincts of Play: Fascicle 22
- pp. 86-105
- 10. Coda from My Emily Dickinson
- pp. 217-218
- Works Cited
- pp. 252-264
- Contributors
- pp. 265-266
- Index of First Lines
- pp. 267-272
- Index to Letters
- p. 273
- General Index
- pp. 274-279
Additional Information
ISBN
9780814273166
Related ISBN(s)
9780814212592
MARC Record
OCLC
888316167
Pages
304
Launched on MUSE
2014-08-21
Language
English
Open Access
Yes