Lyric Contingencies: Emily Dickinson and Wallace Stevens

by Margaret Dickie

Book Overview

In Lyric Contingencies Margaret Dickie brings Wallace Stevens and Emily Dick­inson together to explore the ways in which the lyric genre is eccentric to, even disruptive of, the Emersonian tradition that has shaped American literary history. Dickie contends that although Stevens and Dickinson represent different moments of cultural crises, different genders, and different and private lives, they faced similar problems of expression and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812230779
• ISBN13: 9780812230772
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary