ID - 80256516 TI - The Cambridge introduction to Emily Dickinson PY - 2007 SN - 0521672708 9780521672702 0521856701 9780521856706 9780511611025 9780511275388 0511275382 0511271506 9780511271502 0511273126 9780511273124 0511274688 9780511274688 0511611021 1107166411 9781107166417 1280815582 9781280815584 0511568657 9780511568657 0511273916 9780511273919 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Dickinson, Emily KW - Women poets, American KW - American women poets KW - Dickinson, Emily, KW - Dickinson, Emilia, KW - Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth, KW - Dikinson, Ėmili, KW - D̲ikinson, Emily, KW - Ti-chin-sen, Ai-mi-li, KW - דיקינסון, אמילי, KW - Dykinsan, Ėmili, KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Literature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80256516 AB - Emily Dickinson is best known as an intensely private, even reclusive writer. Yet the way she has been mythologised has meant her work is often misunderstood. This 2007 introduction delves behind the myth to present a poet who was deeply engaged with the issues of her day. In a lucid and elegant style, the book places her life and work in the historical context of the Civil War, the suffrage movement, and the rapid industrialisation of the United States. Wendy Martin explores the ways in which Dickinson's personal struggles with romantic love, religious faith, friendship and community shape her poetry. The complex publication history of her works, as well as their reception, is teased out, and a guide to further reading is included. Dickinson emerges not only as one of America's finest poets, but also as a fiercely independent intellect and an original talent writing poetry far ahead of her time. ER -