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• catalog abstract ""Despite her reputation as a reclusive poet, Emily Dickinson wrote more than one thousand "letters to the world," engaging in lively epistolary conversations with close to one hundred correspondents. Although these letters have found many avid readers since they were first published in 1894, they have often been viewed as mere background material or vehicles for the writer's poems. This study offers a reevaluation of their status within Dickinson's canon, arguing for "correspondence" (rather than "poetry") as her central form of expression." "Concentrating on Dickinson's exchanges with childhood friends, as well as with Susan Gilbert Dickinson, Elizabeth Holland, Austin Dickinson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and the mysterious "Master." Marietta Messmer explores the poet's gradual shift from writing confessional letters to developing her unique "vice for voices" by creating fictionalized epistolary personae. While radically challenging nineteenth-century letter-writing conventions, these personae also subvert the narrowly circumscribed roles available to women at that time. Messmer shows how Dickinson used this double-voiced mode of correspondence to manipulate and interrogate a variety of male-dominated "authorized" literary, religious, and sociocultural discourses."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b12291497.
• catalog created "c2001.".
• catalog date "2001".
• catalog date "c2001.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
• catalog description ""Despite her reputation as a reclusive poet, Emily Dickinson wrote more than one thousand "letters to the world," engaging in lively epistolary conversations with close to one hundred correspondents. Although these letters have found many avid readers since they were first published in 1894, they have often been viewed as mere background material or vehicles for the writer's poems. This study offers a reevaluation of their status within Dickinson's canon, arguing for "correspondence" (rather than "poetry") as her central form of expression." "Concentrating on Dickinson's exchanges with childhood friends, as well as with Susan Gilbert Dickinson, Elizabeth Holland, Austin Dickinson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and the mysterious "Master." Marietta Messmer explores the poet's gradual shift from writing confessional letters to developing her unique "vice for voices" by creating fictionalized epistolary personae. While radically challenging nineteenth-century letter-writing conventions, these personae also subvert the narrowly circumscribed roles available to women at that time. Messmer shows how Dickinson used this double-voiced mode of correspondence to manipulate and interrogate a variety of male-dominated "authorized" literary, religious, and sociocultural discourses."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-259) and indexes.".
• catalog description "Introduction: Two Centuries of Critical Responses to Dickinson's Letters -- The Context of Nineteenth-Century Epistolary Conventions -- Editing Dickinson's Correspondence, 1894-1999 -- The "Female" World of Love and Duty -- The "Male" World of Power and Poetry -- Manipulating Multiple Voices -- Conclusion: Dickinson's Letters to the World.".
• catalog extent "xi, 280 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Vice for voices.".
• catalog identifier "1558493069".
• catalog isFormatOf "Vice for voices.".
• catalog issued "2001".
• catalog issued "c2001.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Press,".
• catalog relation "Vice for voices.".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog subject "811/.4 B".
• catalog subject "American letters History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 Correspondence.".
• catalog subject "PS1541.Z5 M38 2001".
• catalog subject "Poets, American 19th century Correspondence.".
• catalog subject "Women and literature United States History 19th century.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Two Centuries of Critical Responses to Dickinson's Letters -- The Context of Nineteenth-Century Epistolary Conventions -- Editing Dickinson's Correspondence, 1894-1999 -- The "Female" World of Love and Duty -- The "Male" World of Power and Poetry -- Manipulating Multiple Voices -- Conclusion: Dickinson's Letters to the World.".
• catalog title "A vice for voices : reading Emily Dickinson's correspondence / Marietta Messmer.".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "Records and correspondence. fast".
• catalog type "text".