Emily Dickinson
daughter of prophecy
by Beth Maclay Doriani
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How do women, historically excluded from the role of preacher because of their gender, gain authority to assume a prophetic voice? What rhetorical strategies can empower the woman who would claim the role of prophet?
In this book, Beth Maclay Doriani looks at the ways Emily Dickinson addressed these questions in the context of patriarchal nineteenth-century New England. She explores some of the central strategies Dickinson used to claim both poetic and religious authority and to join the ranks of the self-proclaimed prophets of her day - literary figures like Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman, as well as a host of preachers and other popular orators.
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American Christian poetry, American Sermons, Authority in literature, History, History and criticism, Prophecies in literature, Religion, Religious life, Women, Women and literature, Dickinson, emily, 1830-1886, Christian poetry, Sermons, american, Women, religious lifePeople
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Emily Dickinson: daughter of prophecy
1996, University of Massachusetts Press
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0870239996 9780870239991
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-224) and indexes.
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