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Dickinson Criticism 2000

• Deppman, Jed. "Dickinson, Death, and the Sublime." The Emily Dickinson Journal 9.1 (2000): 1-20. Reads "Of Death I try to think like this" in light of the work of Gary Stonum, Georges Bataille, and Jean-Luc Nancy.

• Harper, Lisa. "'The Eyes accost -- and Sunder': Unveiling Emily Dickinson's Poetics." The Emily Dickinson Journal 9.1 (2000): 21-48. A Lacanian reading of veils, the gaze, and desire in ED's work.

• Hawkins, Gary. "Constructing and Residing in the Paradox of Dickinson's Prismatic Space." The Emily Dickinson Journal 9.1 (2000): 49-70. Theoretically complex reading of the notion of space in Dickinson's poems, bolstered by reference to Bakhtin.

• McDermott, John F., M.D. "Emily Dickinson's 'Nervous Prostration' and Its Possible Relationship to Her Work." The Emily Dickinson Journal 9.1 (2000): 71-86. A professor of psychiatry suggests that Dickinson's descriptions of her mental state are consonant with a diagnosis of Panic Disorder; builds on work by Cody and Garbowsky.

• Mitchell, Domhnall. Emily Dickinson: Monarch of Perception. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000. Discussion of Dickinson's relation to material culture--trains, houses, flowers--alternates with close critical reading of the manuscripts and editing practices. Notable for exhaustively contextualized close readings of individual poems.

• Shoobridge, Helen. "'Reverence for each Other Being the Sweet Aim': Dickinson Face to Face with the Masculine." The Emily Dickinson Journal 9.1 (2000): 87-111. "In the Master letters her strategy is not to transcend her sex but to re-occupy it and draw attention to the feminine position." A reading of the "Master" letters via the methods of Luce Irigaray.

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