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000712116 1001_ $$aMessmer, Marietta.
000712116 24512 $$aA vice for voices :$$breading Emily Dickinson's correspondence /$$cMarietta Messmer.
000712116 260__ $$aAmherst, Mass. :$$bUniversity of Massachusetts Press,$$cc2001.
000712116 300__ $$axi, 280 p. ;$$c24 cm.
000712116 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 241-259) and indexes.
000712116 50500 $$tIntroduction: Two Centuries of Critical Responses to Dickinson's Letters --$$tThe Context of Nineteenth-Century Epistolary Conventions --$$tEditing Dickinson's Correspondence, 1894-1999 --$$tThe "Female" World of Love and Duty --$$tThe "Male" World of Power and Poetry --$$tManipulating Multiple Voices --$$tConclusion: Dickinson's Letters to the World.
000712116 5201_ $$a"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."--BOOK JACKET.
000712116 60010 $$aDickinson, Emily,$$d1830-1886.$$tCorrespondence.
000712116 650_0 $$aPoets, American$$y19th century$$vCorrespondence.
000712116 650_0 $$aWomen and literature$$zUnited States$$xHistory$$y19th century.
000712116 650_0 $$aAmerican letters$$xHistory and criticism.
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