TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jackson,Virginia
TI  - Dickinson's Misery: a Theory of Lyric Reading
SN  - 9781400850754
AV  - PS1541 .D535 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Dickinson, Emily,
KW  - Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886
KW  - Criticism and interpretation
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Technique
KW  - Lyric poetry
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Theory, etc
KW  - Poetics
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - United States
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; BEFOREHAND; CHAPTER ONE: Dickinson Undone; Bird-tracks; "When what they sung for . . ."; Lyric Context; Hybrid Poems; Dickinson Unbound; The Archive; CHAPTER TWO: Lyric Reading; "My Cricket"; Lyric Alienation; Lyric Theory; Against (Lyric) Theory; CHAPTER THREE: Dickinson's Figure of Address; "The only poets"; Lyric Media; "The man who makes sheets of paper"; "You-there-I-here"; "The most pathetic thing I do"; CHAPTER FOUR: "Faith in Anatomy"; Achilles' Head; The Interpretant; "No Bird-yet rode in Ether-"The Queen's Place; CHAPTER FIVE: Dickinson's Misery; "Misery, how fair"; "The Literature of Misery"; "This Chasm"; "And bore her safe away"; Conclusion; Notes; Selected Works Cited; Index; 2; b
N2  - How do we know that Emily Dickinson wrote poems? How do we recognize a poem when we see one? In Dickinson's Misery, Virginia Jackson poses fundamental questions about reading habits we have come to take for granted. Because Dickinson's writing remained largely unpublished when she died in 1886, decisions about what it was that Dickinson wrote have been left to the editors, publishers, and critics who have brought Dickinson's work into public view. The familiar letters, notes on advertising fliers, verses on split-open envelopes, and collections of verses on personal stationery tied t
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