Engl. 875-01

Seminar: Emily Dickinson

Spring 2006

MWF 10:00-10:50, Rm. 312

Instructor: Dr. K. Nichols

Research Resources

BOOKS ON LIBRARY RESERVE

Library Reserve books can be checked out for only a few hours or few days, depending on the designation they were given. (Warning: Library fines are rather high for overdue library reserve books.) If you can only check them out for a few hours, locate the material you want and photocopy it while you are in the library. You may also want to photocopy selected material from books you can check out for several days.

The reason these books are on reserve is to make sure everybody has access to many of the most recent books on Dickinson. There are also some Dickinson books in the stacks, but be careful--some are older and out-of-date. You can also order books through Interlibrary Loan, but it may take them 10 days to get the books, and the books may turn out to be no more helpful than the ones we have here.

NOTE: Take this list with you to the main check-out desk. I believe they locate the books by title (you can't go back and browse through them). Tell them the books are under my name.

• Barker, Wendy. Lunacy of Light : Emily Dickinson and the Experience of Metaphor. 811.4 D56Dba.
  
  
• Benfey, Christopher E. G. Emily Dickinson and the Problem of Others. 811.4 D56Db.
  
  
• Bennett, Paula. Emily Dickinson, Woman Poet. 811.4 D56Dbe.
  
  
• Bennett, Paula. My Life, a Loaded Gun : Female Creativity and Feminist Poetics. 811.0099287 B439m.
  
  
• Cameron, Sharon. Choosing Not Choosing : Dickinson's Fascicles. 811.4 D56Dc2.
  
  
• Dobson, Joanne. Dickinson and the Strategies of Reticence : The Woman Writer in Nineteenth-century America. 811.4 D56Ddob.
  
  
• Doriani, Beth Maclay. Emily Dickinson : Daughter of Prophecy. 811.4 D56Ddor.
  
  
• Farr, Judith. The Passion of Emily Dickinson. 811.4 D56Bfa.
  
  
• Farr, Judith. Emily Dickinson : A Collection of Critical Essays. 811.4 D56Dem.
  
  
• Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic : The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-century Literary Imagination. 820.99287 G376m.
  
  
• Guthrie, James R. Emily Dickinson's Vision : Illness and Identity in her Poetry. 811.4 D56Dgu.
  
  
• Hart, Ellen Louise, and Martha Nell Smith. Open Me Carefully : Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson. 811.4 D56Bd7.
  
  
• Johnson, Greg. Emily Dickinson, Perception and the Poet's Quest. 811.4 D56Dj.
  
  
• Johnson, Thomas Herbert, ed. Poems; Including Variant Readings Critically Compared with All Known Manuscripts. (3 volumes) 811.4 D56poj v.1; 811.4 D56poj v.2; 811.4 D56poj v.3.
  
  
• Loeffelholz, Mary. Dickinson and the Boundaries of Feminist Theory. 811.4 D56Dlo.
  
  
• McIntosh, James. Nimble Believing : Dickinson and the Unknown. 811.4 D56Dmc 2000.
  
  
• Miller, Cristanne. Emily Dickinson, a Poet's Grammar. 811.4 D56Dmi.
  
  
• Mitchell, Domhnall. Emily Dickinson : Monarch of Perception. 811.4 D56Dmit.
  
  
• Petrino, Elizabeth A. Emily Dickinson and her Contemporaries: Women's Verse in America, 1820-1885. 811.3 D56Dpe.
  
  
• Pollak, Vivian R. Dickinson, the Anxiety of Gender. 811.4 D56Dpol.
  
  
• Porter, David T. Dickinson, the Modern Idiom. 811.4 D56Dpor2 c.2.
  
  
• Sanchez-Eppler, Karen. Touching Liberty : Abolition, Feminism, and the Politics of the Body. 810.9003 Sa55t.
  
  
• Sewall, Richard Benson. The Life of Emily Dickinson. (2 volumes) 811.4 D56Bs v.1; 811.4 D56Bs v.2.
  
  
• Smith, Martha Nell. Rowing in Eden : Rereading Emily Dickinson. 811.4 D56Dsm.
  
  
• Smith, Robert McClure. The Seductions of Emily Dickinson. 811.4 D56Dsmi 1997.
  
  
• Stonum, Gary Lee. The Dickinson Sublime. 811.4 D56Dsto.
  
  
• St. Armand, Barton Levi. Emily Dickinson and her Culture : The Soul's Society. 811.4 D56Dst.
  
  
• Walker, Cheryl. The Nightingale's Burden : Women Poets and American Culture before 1900. 811.0099287 W151n.
  
  
• Wardrop, Daneen. Emily Dickinson's Gothic : Goblin with a Gauge. 811.4 D56Dwar.
  
  
• Wolff, Cynthia Griffin. Emily Dickinson. 811.4 D56Bwo.
  
  
• Wolosky, Shira. Emily Dickinson : A Voice of War. 811.4 D56Dw.

SELECTED SCHOLARLY ARTICLES

Below are articles available in Axe Library or through the databases (online) at Axe Library. You can locate them by going to the library webpage, clicking on "databases," then clicking on "Academic Search Premier" or "MLA Bibliography," and typing in key words in the search boxes. See me in my office if you have trouble with this. I'll be happy to show you how to do it.

Other articles are also available, depending on the topic of your paper. The ones listed below look mostly at the Dickinson manuscripts, fascicles, and letters. NOTE: These items are not listed according to MLA style. I lifted them off the library web pages--have no idea what style they use.

• The Grammar of Ornament: Emily Dickinson's Manuscripts and Their Meanings. Authors: Mitchell, Domhnall. Source: Nineteenth-Century Literature; Mar2001, Vol. 55 Issue 4, p479, 36p.
  
  
• Revising the script: Emily Dickinson's manuscripts. Authors: Mitchell, Domhnall. Source: American Literature; Dec98, Vol. 70 Issue 4, p705, 33p.
  
  
• As There Are Apartments: Emily Dickinson's Manuscripts and Critical Desire at the Scene of Reading. Author: Hubbard, Melanie Source. Emily Dickinson Journal, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 53-79, 2003.
  
  
• What Is a Fascicle? Author: Loeffelholz, Mary. Journal: Harvard Library bulletin, Volume: 10 Issue: 1 Page: 23 Date: 1999-04-00.
  
  
• Reading Dickinson: Bolts, Hounds, the Variorum, and Fascicle 39. Author: Gerlach, John. Journal: The Emily Dickinson journal, Volume: 3 Issue: 2 Page: 78 Date: 1994-00-00.
  
  
• 'An Exchange of Territory': Dickinson's Fascicle 27. Author: Doreski, William Journal: ESQ, Volume: 32 Issue: 1 Page: 55 Date: 1986-00-00.
  
  
• Emily Dickinson's Manuscript Body: History/Textuality/Gender. Author: Wolosky, Shira. Journal: The Emily Dickinson journal, Volume: 8 Issue: 2 Page: 87 Date: 1999-00-00.
  
  
• "As if for you to choose-" Conflicting Textual Economies in Dickinson's Correspondence with Helen Hunt Jackson. Source: Crumbley, Paul. Women's Studies, 2002, vol. 31, issue 6, p 743.
  
  
• 'Glorious, Afflicting, Beneficial': Triangular Romance and Dickinson's Rhetoric of Apocalypse. Author: Miller, Greg. Journal: The Emily Dickinson journal, Volume: 11 Issue: 2 Page: 86 Date: 2002-00-00.
  
  
• DICKINSON'S EPISTOLARY "NATURALNESS." Author: Esdale, Logan. Source: Emily Dickinson Journal, 14, no. 1 (2005): p. 1-23,136-138.
  
  
• Dickinson's Lyrical Letters and Poetics of Correspondence. Author: Hewitt, Elizabeth. Source: Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 27-58, Spring 1996.
  
  
• 'A Letter Is a Joy of Earth': Emily Dickinson's Letters and Victorian Epistolary Conventions. Tingley, Stephanie A., The Emily Dickinson Journal, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 202-08, 1996.
  
  
• 'A Letter Always Seemed to Me Like Immortality': The Correspondence of Emily Dickinson. Author: Decker, Willia. Journal: ESQ, Volume: 39 Issue: 2-3 Page: 77 Date: 1993-00-00.
  
  
• 'Near, but Remote': Emily Dickinson's Epistolary Voice. Scheurer, Erika, The Emily Dickinson Journal, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 86-107, 1995.
  
  
• Corresponding Worlds: The Art of Emily Dickinson's Letters. Wider, Sarah, The Emily Dickinson Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 19-38, 1992.
  
  
• ANOREXIA nervosa; DICKINSON, Emily; POETS; SYMPTOMS. Author(s): Thomas, Heather Kirk. Source: American Literature, May88, Vol. 60 Issue 2, p205, 21p.
  
  
• Reading Emily Dickinson's Letters. Juhasz, Suzanne, ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 170-192, 1984.
  
  
• Dickinson's Letters to Higginson: Motives for Metaphor. Mann, John S., Higginson Journal, vol. 22, pp. 1-79, 1979.
  
  
• A Developing Self as Revealed through the Royalty Imagery in the Poems and Letters of Emily Dickinson. Shurbutt, Sylvia Bailey, American Transcendental Quarterly: A Journal of New England Writers, vol. 42, pp. 167-76, 1979.
  
  
• Emily Dickinson's Punctuation: The Controversy Revisited. Wylder, Edith, American Literary Realism, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 206-24, Spring 2004.

ONLINE RESOURCES

If you use online sources, make sure they are recognized scholarly sources. Ask me, if in doubt. NOTE: These entries may not observe MLA style; I copied them as they were on the web pages.

• Dickinson Electronic Archives--many helpful links to explore. Scholarly articles included on this web site.
  
  
• The Classroom Electric--many scholarly articles linked on this page.
  
  
• Unfastening the Fascicles--collection of links to scholarly papers on several of the fascicles.
  
  
• John Schmit's "I only said--the syntax--": Elision, recoverability, and insertion in Emily Dickinson's poetry, Style, Spring 93, Vol. 27 Issue 1, p106, 19p--scholarly article.
  
  
• Fred D. White's "Sweet skepticism of the heart": Science in the poetry of Emily Dickinson, College Literature, Feb 92, Vol. 19 Issue 1, p121, 8p--scholarly article.
  
  
• Paul Bray's Emily Dickinson as visionary, Raritan, Summer 92, Vol. 12 Issue 1, p113, 25p--scholarly article.
  
  
• David Cody's Blood in the Basin: The Civil War in Emily Dickinson's "The name - of it - is 'Autumn' -", The Emily Dickinson Journal 12.1 (2003) 25-52--scholarly article.
  
  
• Martha Nell Smith's A Hypermedia Archive of Dickinson's Creative Work, Part II: Musings on The Screen and The Book, The Emily Dickinson Journal V.2 (1996)--scholarly article.
  
  
• Martha Nell Smith's Corporealizations of Dickinson and Interpretive Machines, The Iconic Page in Manuscript, Print, and Digital Culture. Eds. George Bornstein and Theresa Tinkle . U of Michigan Press. (Spring 1998). 195-221--scholarly article.
  
  
• Martha Nell Smith's Because the Plunge from the Front Overturned Us: The Dickinson Electronic Archives Project, Studies in the Literary Imagination 32:1 (Spring 1999)--scholarly article.
  
  
• Martha Nell Smith's Rowing in Eden: Reading Dickinson Reading, in Rowing in Eden: Rereading Emily Dickinson. Austin: U of Texas Press, 1992. 50-95, 232-238--scholarly article.
  
  
• Melanie Hubbard's As there are Apartments: Emily Dickinson's Manuscripts and Critical Desire at the Scene of Reading, The Emily Dickinson Journal 12.1 (2003) 53-79--scholarly article.
  
  
• Lilach Lachman's Time-Space and Audience in Dickinson's Vacuity Scenes, The Emily Dickinson Journal 12.1 (2003) 80-106.
  
  
• Claire Raymond's Emily Dickinson as the Un-named, Buried Child, The Emily Dickinson Journal 12.1 (2003) 107-122.
  
  
• Dorothy Zayatz Baker's Aaron Copland's Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson: A Reading of Dissonance and Harmony, The Emily Dickinson Journal 12.1 (2003) 1-24--scholarly article.
  
  
• Eleanor Elson Heginbotham's Reading the Fascicles of Emily Dickinson--scholarly book (PDF file). (It looks like the entire book is here!)
  
  
• Ellen Louise Hart and Martha Nell Smith, eds. Open Me Carefully--Chapter One of this scholarly book posted online.
  
  
• William E. H. Meyer, Jr., Emily Dickinson's "Final Decision" : Masculine Voyeurism or Feminine Exhibitionism?, Weber Studies, Winter 1993, Volume 10.1--scholarly article.
  
  
• Domhnall Mitchell's A Foreign Country: Emily Dickinson's Manuscripts and Their Meanings, Legacy 17.2 (2000) 174-186 --scholarly article.
  
  
• Interior Chambers: The Emily Dickinson Homestead, differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 10.3 (1998) 1-46 --scholarly article.
  
  
• Philip A. Gura, News--new photo of Emily; story of its discovery.
  
  
• The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson--online Johnson edition. You can compile your own copy of a fascicle by copying the designated poems from this source.

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