Dickinson Criticism 1999

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Dickinson Criticism 1999

Crumbley, Paul. "The Dickinson Variorum and the Question of Home." The Emily Dickinson Journal 8.2 (1999): 10-23. Takes issue with Franklin's 1998 representation of dashes as hyphens, and with Franklin's use of first lines as titles.

Ellis, Richard S. "'A Little East of Jordan': Human-Divine Encounter in Dickinson and the Hebrew Bible," The Emily Dickinson Journal 8.1 (1999): 36-58. Close reading of the poem named in the title, stressing its polysemousness; general comparison of ED to Torah.

Friedlander, Benjamin. "Emily Dickinson and the Civil War." DAI 60-08A, 2921 (1999). [SUNY-Buffalo; Neil Schmitz] Centers on "the interrelation of history, language and trauma" in the poetry.

Kearns, Michael. "Emily Dickinson's Lyrical Narratives." CCTE Studies 64 (1999): 50-55. Emphasis on lyric by critics like Sharon Cameron has distracted attention from narrative poems like "The last night that she lived" and "I took my power in my hand."

Lebow, Lori. "Woman of Letters: Narrative Episodes in the Letters of Emily Dickinson." The Emily Dickinson Journal 8.1 (1999): 73-96. ED creates stories in her letters, using them to create a narrating "I" and as part of the coin of an epistolary exchange.

Lebow, Lori. "Emily Dickinson's Letters: Mail-Order Bride." In Jacqueline Lo, et al., eds., Impossible Selves: Cultural Readings of Identity. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 1999. 136-145. The problematics of ED's letters, centered on how ED tries to please each individual correspondent.

Loeffelholz, Mary. "Corollas of Autumn: Reading Franklin's Dickinson." The Emily Dickinson Journal 8.2 (1999): 55-71. Reads the 1998 variorum in the light of Loeffelholz's experience as a guest curator of a Dickinson exhibit at Harvard's Houghton Library.

Mayer, Nancy L. "Where do we find ourselves? Late Romantic writers and subjectivity." DAI 60-07A, 2480 (1999). [U of Wisconsin at Milwaukee; Gregory Jay] ED in contrast to Emerson; her imagination is "limited by circumstance and morality."

Mitchell, Domhnall. "Emily Dickinson, Ralph Franklin, and the Diplomacy of Translation." The Emily Dickinson Journal 8.2 (1999): 39-54. Franklin's work in the 1998 variorum is magisterial but also at times oddly arbitrary.

Morris, Tim. "The Franklin Edition of Dickinson: Is That All There Is?" The Emily Dickinson Journal 8.2 (1999): 1-9. Franklin's 1998 edition offers less than one might have hoped for, but all that can be demanded of careful scholarship.

Praitis, Irena Aldona. "Shaping forms: poetic revisions of the body in Dickinson, Bishop, and Plath." DAI 60-03A, 0745 (1999). [Arizona State; Susan McCabe] "Privileging a bodily agency, these poets write and rewrite expansive, volatile bodies which refuse the containment of traditional concepts of subjectivity."

Ramirez, Anne West. "Sisters in search: Emily Dickinson's affinities with the tradition of Christlike women in literature." DAI 60-06A, 2030 (1999). [Indiana U of Pennsylvania; Karen Dandurand] Looks at ED in relation to this long tradition, which stretches from folktale and Celtic Christianity to Tillie Olsen and Ursula LeGuin.

Rizzo, Patricia Thompson. "Emily Dickinson and the 'Blue Peninsula': Dickinson's Reception in Italy." The Emily Dickinson Journal 8.1 (1999): 97-107. Centers on the arrival of a new complete translation of ED into Italian.

Runzo, Sandra. "Dickinson's Transgressive Body." The Emily Dickinson Journal 8.1 (1999): 59-72. The 19th century tried to limit and contain representations of the female body; Dickinson represented her own body as "colossally female."

Seelbinder, Emily. "These Are Her Introduction? Teaching Emily Dickinson's Poetry in the Trenches." The Emily Dickinson Journal 8.2 (1999): 100-110. The 1998 Franklin edition of Dickinson can be frustrating for teachers of Dickinson in basic courses, but can also, properly managed, enrich teaching.

Smith, Martha Nell, and Ellen Louise Hart. "On Franklin's Gifts & Ghosts." The Emily Dickinson Journal 8.2 (1999): 24-38. The 1998 Franklin edition offers extremely valuable data but can be tendentious in its conclusions about that data.

Sorensen, Jean Whiteside. "Pious irreverence: Emily Dickinson's engagement with tradition." DAI 60-04Q, 1137 (1999). [U of Dallas: Eileen Gregory] "Tradition" here is used in the sense of the whole classical and Christian heritage.

Wardrop, Daneen. "'That Minute Domingo': Dickinson's Cooptation of Abolitionist Diction and Franklin's Variorum Edition." The Emily Dickinson Journal 8.2 (1999): 72-86. Franklin's (1998) tendency to offer more full alternate versions than Johnson (1955) can impact interpretive preferences.

Wolosky, Shira. "Emily Dickinson's Manuscript Body: History / Textuality / Gender." The Emily Dickinson Journal 8.2 (1999): 87-99. Franklin's 1998 variorum raises more questions than it settles. In part an attack on feminist textual scholarship: "Having been so long locked in her room, Dickinson now seems in danger of being locked in her drawer."

Yamada Aoi. "On the 'hill of science': a comparative study of Emily Dickinson's poetry and Mount Holyoke textbooks." DAI 60-04C, 0683 (1999). [U of Essex] Possible sources and influences in science textbooks used at Mt. Holyoke during ED's year there.