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Dickinson and the Strategies of Reticence:

The Woman Writer in Nineteenth-Century America
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Indiana University Press, 1989 - Literary Criticism - 160 pages

Rejecting the view that interprets Emily Dickinson exclusively as a proto-modernist poet, Joanne Dobson finds Dickinson rooted in the expressive assumptions of her contemporary women writers. By looking at Dickinson in the context of these writers, Dobson uncovers the effects of common grounding in a cultural ethos of femininity that mandated personal reticence. Combining literary history and contemporary feminist literary theory, this study posits a complex interaction of personal preferences and editorial policies that resulted in a community of expression with impact on women's writing and literary careers.

  

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Contents

A Certain Prejudice
1
My Author Existence
26
HI Are There Any Lives of Women?
56
The Grievedare manyI am told
78
The Reticent Volcano
99
EMILY DICKINSON AND PUBLICATION
128
NOTES
135
WORKS CITED
150
INDEX TO POEMS CITED
156
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About the author (1989)

Dobson is associate professor of English at Fordham University.

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