Poetry of Emily Dickinson

Dr Victoria N. Morgan is a researcher and scholar of nineteenth-century women’s writing, hymnology, religion, and devotional verse. She has published various books and articles in these areas and is the author of Emily Dickinson and Hymn Culture: Tradition and Experience (2010; 2016) and co-editor of Shaping Belief: Culture, Politics and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Writing (2008). She has taught widely on English and American Literature at the University of Liverpool, Liverpool Hope University, and most recently at the University of East Anglia, U.K.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1 Biographies and publication 1.1 Biographers1.2 Dickinson as poet: Self-publication and early publication2. Style and Meaning 2.1 Early criticism2.2 Later revaluations3 The female tradition, gender and sexuality3.1 The female tradition 3.2 Writing the body3.3 Queering Dickinson4 History, Civil War and race 4.1 Historicizing Dickinson4.2 The US Civil War4.3 Dickinson, ethnicity and race5 Religion and hymn culture5.1 Rejecting orthodoxy5.2 Religion and aesthetics 5.3 Dickinson and hymnody6 Performance and reception6.1 Performance in Dickinson’s Poetry 6.2 Dickinson and popular Culture 6.3 Digital Dickinson and international reception ConclusionBibliography Index

Morgan expertly guides readers through the history of Dickinson criticism and provides them with key insights that help illuminate the most pertinent issues and recurring debates that have shaped and continue to shape Dickinson’s reputation.