Domhnall Mitchell - Emily Dickinson: monarch of perception
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This text challenges some of the more pious views of Emily Dickinson. The author examines her background, letters and poems from a social, cultural and historical perspective, and presents a more complex portrait of Dickinson and her work.
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Dickinson, Emily,--1830-1886--Criticism and interpretation, Literature and society--Massachusetts--Amherst--History--19th century, Women and literature--United States--History--19th century, Dickinson, Emily,--1830-1886--Political and social views, Manusc
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2000
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Dickinson, Emily,--1830-1886--Criticism and interpretation, Literature and society--Massachusetts--Amherst--History--19th century, Women and literature--United States--History--19th century, Dickinson, Emily,--1830-1886--Political and social views, Manusc
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Emily Dickinson
Monarch of Perception
Domhnall Mitchell
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Copyright 2000 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Designed by Kristina Kachele Printed and bound by Sheridan Books, Inc. Typeset in Janson Text, display type in Engravers Roman BT by Graphic Composition, Inc. ISBN 1-55849-226-7 LC 99-33651
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mitchell, Domhnall, 1962 Emily Dickinson : monarch of perception / Domhnall Mitchell. p. cm. Includes bibliographical refences (p. ) and index. ISBN 1-55849-226-7 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Dickinson, Emily, 18301886 Criticism and inter pretation. 2. Literature and society Massachusetts Amherst History 19th century. 3. Women and litera ture United States History 19th century. 4. Dickin son, Emily, 18301886 Political and social views. 5. Manuscripts, American Massachusetts Amherst. 6. Dickinson, Emily, 18301886 Manuscripts. 7. Com munity life in literature. I. Title. PS1541.Z5M58 2000 811'.4 dc21 99-33651 CIP
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D Seosamh agus Caitln Misteil Til Lise Utne og Patrick Mitchell Utne
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One should make a sacrament of the mundane. One should arrange experience in noncausal patterns that point to no action. At best, one may remain a monarch of perception, safe in a world one controls, and insulated from historical process. RICHARD OHMANN, Politics of Letters
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Contents
Acknowledgments
xi
A Note on the Text
xv
Introduction
1
One The Train, the Father, His Daughter, and Her Poem: "I like to see it lap the Miles"
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Two "Homeless at Home": The Politics and Poetics of Domestic Space
44
Three Housing Possibilities: Dickinson and the Institution of Culture
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Four "A Little Taste, Time, and Means": Dickinson and Flowers
112
Five Letters from Home: Dickinson and Publication
154
Six Gathering Buds: Dickinson's Autograph Anthologies
178
Seven Revising the Script: Dickinson's Manuscripts
199
Eight Cordoning off Dissent: Dickinson's Monologic Voices
228
Nine Passages of Meaning: "Safe in their alabaster chambers"
258
Notes
301
Index to Dickinson's Poems
345
General Index
349
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Acknowledgments
First versions of this book were written during a year's paid leave spent in Amherst, Massachusetts, from summer 1996 to spring 1997. I am grateful to my employer, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology at Trondheim, for granting my leave and for the additional financial allowances that enabled me to make several research trips to Harvard University, the Boston Public Library, and Brown University. I would like to thank the secretary of the Department of English at NTNU, Aashild Malm, for her administrative support during this period. I am grateful to the staff of the Houghton Reading Room at Harvard University, and to Leslie Morris in particular; Giuseppe Bisaccia, Eugene Zepp, Roberta Zonghi, and the staff at the Galatea Room of the Boston Public Library, Rare Books and Manuscripts Division; Mark Brown at the John Hay Library, Brown University; Jessica Teters and the staff of the Jones Library. in Amherst; John Lancaster and the staff of the Special Collections Room of the Frost Library at Amherst College; the staff at the University of Massachusetts Library; Betty Bernhard, Dossie Kissam, Ruth Owen Jones, and the wonderful guides at the Dickinson Homestead.
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