Loeffelholz, Mary, 1958-

The value of Emily Dickinson / Mary Loeffelholz. - pages cm

Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. The life of Dickinson's writing; 2. Some striding - giant - love -; 3. Women, now, queens, now!; 4. Her American materials; 5. Faith and doubt; 6. The spirit lasts - but in what mode -.

"Emily Dickinson's writing remains valuable to a wide range of readers today. This I know because my first-generation Kindle(tm) tells me so; when it goes to sleep, its electronic ink every so often morphs into her image, surfacing in the screensaver's rotation of canonical authors along with the likenesses of Charlotte Bronte, James Joyce, John Milton, Sir Thomas More, John Steinbeck, Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf"--

9781107083912 (hardback) 9781107445864 (paperback)

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Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 --Criticism and interpretation.
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 --Appreciation.


Autobiography in literature.
Women poets, American--Biography.
Poets, American--19th century--Biography.
Women and literature--History--United States--19th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors.

PS1541.Z5 / L5965 2016

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