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001 2015012976
003 DLC
005 20150612090036.0
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010 $a 2015012976
020 $a9781609383916 (paperback)
020 $z9781609383923 (e-book)
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042 $apcc
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050 00 $aPS1541.Z5$bD494 2015
082 00 $a811/.4$223
084 $aLIT004020$aBIO007000$2bisacsh
245 00 $aDickinson in her own time :$ba biographical chronicle of her life, drawn from recollections, interviews, and memoirs by family, friends, and associates /$cedited by Jane Donahue Eberwein, Stephanie Farrar, Cristanne Miller.
263 $a1601
264 1 $aIowa City :$bUniversity of Iowa Press,$c2016.
300 $apages cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aWriters in their own time
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 $a"Even before the first books of her poems were published in the 1890s, friends, neighbors, and even apparently strangers knew Emily Dickinson was a writer of remarkable verses. Featuring both well-known documents and material printed or collected here for the first time, this book offers a broad range of writings that convey impressions of Dickinson in her own time and for the first decades following the publication of her poems. It all begins with her school days and continues to the centennial of her birth in 1930. In addition, promotional items, reviews, and correspondence relating to early publications are included, as well as some later documents that reveal the changing assessments of Dickinson's poetry in response to evolving critical standards. These documents provide evidence that counters many popular conceptions of her life and reception, such as the belief that the writer best known for poems focused on loss, death, and immortality was herself a morose soul. In fact, those who knew her found her humorous, playful, and interested in other people. Dickinson maintained literary and personal correspondence with major representatives of the national literary scene, developing a reputation as a remarkable writer even as she maintained extreme levels of privacy. Evidence compiled here also demonstrates that she herself made considerable provision for the survival of her poems and laid the groundwork for their eventual publication. Dickinson in Her Own Time reveals the poet as her contemporaries knew her, before her legend took hold. "--$cProvided by publisher.
600 10 $aDickinson, Emily,$d1830-1886.
650 0 $aWomen poets, American$vBiography.
650 0 $aPoets, American$y19th century$vBiography.
600 10 $aDickinson, Emily,$d1830-1886$xPublic opinion.
600 10 $aDickinson, Emily,$d1830-1886$xAppreciation.
600 10 $aDickinson, Emily,$d1830-1886$xFriends and associates
650 0 $aWomen and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aEberwein, Jane Donahue,$d1943-$eeditor.
700 1 $aFarrar, Stephanie,$d1980-
700 1 $aMiller, Cristanne.