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Emily Dickinson
A Literary Life, Literary Lives
ISBN/EAN: 9781349441365
Umbreit-Nr.: 9452385
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: x, 202 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 01.01.2013
Auflage: 1/2013
- Zusatztext
- With special attention to Emily Dickinson's growth into a poet, this literary biographical study charts Dickinson's hard-won brilliance as she worked, largely alone, to become the unique American woman writer of the nineteenth century.
- Kurztext
- A groundbreaking new study of Emily Dickinson, arguably one of the most-quoted American poets.The author makes use of new archival research, a great resource for researchers and readers of American literature and poetryThis literary biographical study charts Dickinson's hard-won brilliance as she worked, largely alone, to become the unique American woman writer of the nineteenth century
- Autorenportrait
- Linda Wagner-Martin is Frank Borden Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. She has been a Guggenheim fellow, a Rockefeller awardee, and a resident at Bellagio, Bogliasco, and the Bunting Institute. She recently received the Hubbell Medal for lifetime service to American literature. Her 2013 A History of American Literature from 1950 to the Present is her 53rd book. She has written two other books for this series, one on Ernest Hemingway and the other, in both 1999 and 2003, on Sylvia Plath. She writes widely on twentieth-century American literature, biography, women's writing and pedagogy. Her publications include A Historical Guide to Ernest Hemingway (2000), William Faulkner: Six Decades of Criticism (2002), Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) and Hemingway: Eight Decades of Criticism (2009).