The Poetry of Emily Dickinson

Dr Victoria N. Morgan is a researcher and scholar of nineteenth-century women’s writing, hymnology, religion, and devotional verse. She has published various books and articles in these areas and is the author of Emily Dickinson and Hymn Culture: Tradition and Experience (2010; 2016) and co-editor of Shaping Belief: Culture, Politics and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Writing (2008). She has taught widely on English and American Literature at the University of Liverpool, Liverpool Hope University, and most recently at the University of East Anglia, U.K.

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Introduction

1 Biographies and publication
1.1 Biographers
1.2 Dickinson as poet: Self-publication and early publication

2. Style and Meaning
2.1 Early criticism
2.2 Later revaluations

3 The female tradition, gender and sexuality
3.1 The female tradition
3.2 Writing the body
3.3 Queering Dickinson

4 History, Civil War and race
4.1 Historicizing Dickinson
4.2 The US Civil War
4.3 Dickinson, ethnicity and race

5 Religion and hymn culture
5.1 Rejecting orthodoxy
5.2 Religion and aesthetics
5.3 Dickinson and hymnody

6 Performance and reception
6.1 Performance in Dickinson’s Poetry
6.2 Dickinson and popular Culture
6.3 Digital Dickinson and international reception

Conclusion

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Index