The New Emily Dickinson Studies

This volume presents new approaches to Dickinson, informed by twenty-first-century theory and methodologies.

Michelle Kohler (Edited by)

9781108480307, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 16 May 2019

350 pages
23.5 x 15.8 x 2.3 cm, 0.63 kg

This collection presents new approaches to Emily Dickinson's oeuvre. Informed by twenty-first-century critical developments, the Dickinson that emerges here is embedded in and susceptible to a very physical world, and caught in unceasing interactions and circulation that she does not control. The volume's essays offer fresh readings of Dickinson's poetry through such new critical lenses as historical poetics, ecocriticism, animal studies, sound studies, new materialism, posthumanism, object-oriented feminism, disability studies, queer theory, race studies, race and contemporary poetics, digital humanities, and globalism. These essays address what it means to read Dickinson in braille, online, graffitied, and internationally, alongside the work of poets of color. Taken together, this book widens our understanding of Dickinson's readerships, of what the poems can mean, and for whom.

Introduction Michelle Kohler
Part I. Poetics and the Imagination: 1. Collaborative Dickinson Alexandra Socarides
2. Generic Dickinson Michael C. Cohen
3. 'Success in Circuit Lies': Dickinson, media, and imagination Eliza Richards
4. Dickinson and sound Christina Pugh
Part II. Theoretical Frameworks: 5. Dickinson's object-oriented feminism Michelle Kohler
6. 'The Vision – pondered long': Dickinson, chronic pain, and the materiality of figuration Michael Snediker
7. Dickinson's posthuman worlds: biopoetics and environmental subjectivity Colleen Glenney Boggs
8. Dickinson and historical ecopoetics Gillian Kidd Osborne
Part III. Nineteenth-Century Histories: 9. Dickinson's physics Cody Marrs
10. Dickinson's geographical poetics Grant Rosson
11. Global Dickinson Páraic Finnerty
12. Dickinson and George Moses Horton Faith Barrett
13. Dickinson and the diary Desirée Henderson
Part IV. Receptions, Archives, Readerships: 14. Textures newly visible: the online Dickinson archives Seth Perlow
15. Coloring Dickinson: race, influence, and lyric dis-reading Evie Shockley
16. Dickinson, disability, and a crip editorial practice Clare Mullaney
17. Emily Dickinson in Baghdad Naseer Hassan
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [DSBF], Literature: history & criticism [DS], Literature & literary studies [D]