A Poet's Parents: The Courtship Letters of Emily Norcross and Edward Dickinson

Pollak, Vivian R.

ISBN 10: 080781797X / ISBN 13: 9780807817971

Edité par The University of North Carolina Press, 1988

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• Titre: A Poet's Parents: The Courtship Letters of Emily Norcross and Edward Dickinson
• Éditeur: The University of North Carolina Press
• Date de parution: 1988
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 080781797X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780807817971
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket
• Poids: 1,35 livre

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The courtship letters of Emily Dickinson's parents identify issues of vital importance to the poet's parents which influenced Dickinson's subsequent development. In her introduction, Pollak places the letters within the context of nineteenth-century American society and argues that the poet's disturbed relationship with her mother forms part of a larger pattern of troubled same-sex bonding that can be observed in the lives and works of other major artists of the era.

Originally published in 1988.

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