Reading in Time: Emily Dickinson in the Nineteenth Century

by Cristanne Miller

This book provides new information about Emily Dickinson as a writer and new ways of situating this poet in relation to nineteenth-century literary culture, examining how we read her poetry and how she was reading the poetry of her own day. Cristanne Miller argues both that Dickinson's poetry is formally far closer to the verse of her day than generally imagined and that Dickinson wrote, circulated, and retained poems differently before and after...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558499512
• ISBN13: 9781558499515
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"