Dickinson and the Strategies of Reticence

by Joanne Dobson

Book Overview

Rejecting the view that interprets Emily Dickinson exclusively as a proto-modernist poet, Joanne Dobson finds Dickinson rooted in the expressive assumptions of her contemporary women writers. By looking at Dickinson in the context of these writers, Dobson uncovers the effects of common grounding in a cultural ethos of femininity that mandated personal reticence. Combining literary history and contemporary feminist literary theory, this study posits...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253318092
• ISBN13: 9780253318091
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Deserves attention by fans of Emily Dickinson, much material here

Even if you think you've read much of what is out there which foucses on Emily Dickinson, this book may provide new perspectives on her place in history and it will also give insight into the lives of Women Writers. The detailed appendix focusing on Dickinson and Pulication, notes, works cited and an index of poesm are all helpful. But the gist of this book is in its contention that Dicksinson was NOT exclusively a post-modernist poet. She combines literary history, contemporary feminisit literary theory and more to make her points. Intriguing!