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Emily Dickinson and her culture : the soul's society / Barton Levi St. Armand.

St. Armand, Barton Levi.
1986
811.4 D553Ysta 1986
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Title
Emily Dickinson and her culture : the soul's society / Barton Levi St. Armand.
Author
St. Armand, Barton Levi.
Edition
1st pbk. ed.
ISBN
0521339782 (pbk.)
9780521339780 (pbk.)
Imprint
Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1986, c1984.
Language
English
Description
xii, 368 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Call Number
811.4 D553Ysta 1986
System Control No.
(OCoLC)15563817
(OCoLC)15563817
Summary
Attempts to place Dickinson's works in their cultural context by exploring her attitudes toward death, romance, the afterlife, art, and nature.
Note
Includes index.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Bibliography: p. 318-352.
Formatted Contents Note
Keepsakes : Mary Warner's scrapbook
Dark parade : Dickinson, Sigourney, and the Victorian way of death
Kindred spirits : Dickinson, Stowe, and the wars of romance
Paradise deferred : Dickinson, Phelps, and the image of heaven
American grotesque: Dickinson, God, and folk forms
The earthly paradise : Dickinson, Higginson, and the society of nature
Lone landscapes : Dickinson, Ruskin, and Victorian aesthetics
The art of peace : Dickinson, sunsets, and the sublime
Appendix A: The books of revelation / by Martha Dickinson Bianchi
Appendix B: Austin Dickinson as connoisseur
Appendix C: Dickinson's mystic day.
Series
Cambridge studies in American literature and culture
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