Author : Mary Loeffelholz
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Feminism and literature
ISBN : 0252061756
Dickinson and the Boundaries of Feminist Theory by Mary Loeffelholz Pdf
Poetry written by the gifted recluse Emily Dickinson has remained fresh and enigmatic for longer than works by her male Transcendentalist counterparts. Here Mary Loeffelholz reads Dickinson's poetry and career in the double context of nineteenth-century literary tradition and twentieth-century feminist literary theory. "Mary Loeffelholz has written a book that actually performs what it promises. . . . It illuminates our understanding of Emily Dickinson with readings both elegant and useful, and as importantly suggests modified direction for feminist-psychoanalytic theory." -- Diana Hume George, author of Oedipus Anne: The Poetry of Anne Sexton