International Reception of Emily Dickinson

Domhnall Mitchell is Professor of 19th century American Literature in the Department of Modern Languages at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. Maria Stuart is College Lecturer in American Literature in the School of English and Drama at University College Dublin, Ireland.

• Introduction; 1. The Mind Alone': Reading Emily Dickinson in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Sabine Sielke (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University, Germany); 2. La Hurleuse Discrete: Emily Dickinson in Francophone Europe and North America, David Palmieri (SUNY Plattsburgh, Canada); 3. Emily Dickinson in the Low Countries, Marianne de Vooght (University of Essex, UK); 4. Emily Dickinson in Norway, Domhnall Mitchell, (University of Science and Technology, Norway); 5. 'I Dwell in Possibility': The Reception of Emily Dickinson in Sweden, Lennart Nyberg, (Lund University, Sweden); 6. Meteors, Prodigies, Sorcerers: Emily Dickinson in Portugal, Ana Luisa Amaral and Marinela Freitas (University of Porto, Portugal and Institute for Comparative Literature Margarida Losa); 7. Dickinson in Brazil, Carlos Daghlian (Brazil); 8. Called Back: Emily Dickinson in Hebrew, Lilach Lachman (Tel Aviv University, Israel); 9. Dickinson in Japan, Masako Takeda (Japan); 10. Dickinson in the Ukraine, Anna Chesnokova (Kyiv National Linguistic University, Ukraine); 11. Dickinson in England and Ireland, Maria Stuart (University College Dublin, Ireland); 12. 'Into Van Dieman's Land': Emily Dickinson in Australia, Joan Kirkby (Macquarie University, Australia); Index.

The essays in this collection make an important and timely contribution to Dickinson scholarship, documenting but also explaining the nuances of Dickinson's appreciation, appropriation and influence outside the United States. This fascinating book expands our understanding of Dickinson's twentieth-century reception, showing how scholars, readers, writers, and translators from Europe, Japan, South America, Israel, Australia and Canada confirm critical and theoretical trends in Dickinson scholarship, but also offer different approaches to her work, new insights and fresh perspectives.