A Poet's Parents: The Courtship Letters of Emily Norcross and Edward Dickinson

Book Overview

The courtship letters of Emily Dickinson's parents identify issues of vital importance to the poet's parents which influenced Dickinson's subsequent development. In her introduction, Pollak places the letters within the context of nineteenth-century American society and argues that the poet's disturbed relationship with her mother forms part of a larger pattern of troubled same-sex bonding that can be observed in the lives and works of other major...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807867519
• ISBN13: 9780807867518
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"