Emily Dickinson and the Problem of Others

by Christopher E G Benfey and Christopher E.G. Benfey

In this well-crafted study, Christopher E. G. Benfey seeks to demonstrate the depth and coherence of Dickinson's thinking. He is concerned primarily with Dickinson's relation to skepticism, and he shows how her poems provide responses to the claim that we do not have access to the natural world or to other people. While granting the "truth" of skepticism--that we cannot know with certainty that the world exist, or exists as we experience it--Dickinson...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870234374
• ISBN13: 9780870234378
• Release Date: September 1984
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.8"