Emily Dickinson and Hymn Culture: Tradition and Experience

by Victoria N. Morgan

Book Overview

Bringing to bear the hymnody of Dickinson's female forbears and contemporaries and the Dissenting ideology found in Isaac Watts's hymns, this study offers a critical intervention in Dickinson's use of the hymn form. Dickinson's use of bee imagery and the re-visioned notions of religious design in her 'alternative hymns' show her engaging with a community of hymn writers in ways that anticipate the ideas of feminist theologians.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138266051
• ISBN13: 9781138266056
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"