TY - BOOK AU - Pollak,Vivian R. TI - Our Emily Dickinsons: American Women Poets and the Intimacies of Difference T2 - Haney Foundation Series SN - 9780812248449 AV - PS1541.Z5 P584 2017eb U1 - 811/.4 23 PY - 2016///] CY - Philadelphia : PB - University of Pennsylvania Press, KW - American poetry KW - Women authors KW - History and criticism KW - Authors and readers KW - United States KW - History KW - Difference (Philosophy) in literature KW - Intimacy (Psychology) in literature KW - Women and literature KW - Women poets, American KW - 20th century KW - Cultural Studies KW - Literature KW - Poetry KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Abbreviations --; Introduction. Dickinson and the Demands of Intimacy --; Chapter 1. Helen Hunt Jackson and Dickinson's Personal Publics --; Chapter 2. Mabel Loomis Todd and Dickinson's Art of Sincerity --; Chapter 3. ''The Wholesomeness of the Life'': Marianne Moore's Unartificial Dickinson --; Chapter 4. Moore, Plath, Hughes, and ''The Literary Life'' --; Chapter 5. Plath's Dickinson: On Not Stopping for Death --; Chapter 6. Elizabeth Bishop and the U.S.A. Schools of Writing --; Conclusion. Dickinson and the Demands of Difference --; Notes --; Works Cited --; Index of Dickinson's Poems and Letters --; General Index --; Acknowledgments; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - For Vivian R. Pollak, Emily Dickinson's work is an extended meditation on the risks of social, psychological, and aesthetic difference that would be taken up by the generations of women poets who followed her. She situates Dickinson's originality in relation to her nineteenth-century audiences, including poet, novelist, and Indian rights activist Helen Hunt Jackson and her controversial first editor, Mabel Loomis Todd, and traces the emergence of competing versions of a brilliant but troubled Dickinson in the twentieth century, especially in the writings of Marianne Moore, Sylvia Plath, and Elizabeth Bishop.Pollak reveals the wide range of emotions exhibited by women poets toward Dickinson's achievement and chronicles how their attitudes toward her changed over time. She contends, however, that they consistently use Dickinson to clarify personal and professional battles of their own. Reading poems, letters, diaries, journals, interviews, drafts of published and unpublished work, and other historically specific primary sources, Pollak tracks nineteenth- and twentieth-century women poets' ambivalence toward a literary tradition that overvalued lyric's inwardness and undervalued the power of social connection.Our Emily Dickinsons places Dickinson's life and work within the context of larger debates about gender, sexuality, and literary authority in America and complicates the connections between creative expression, authorial biography, audience reception, and literary genealogy UR - https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812293227 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812293227 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780812293227.jpg ER -