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
• Online Resources
• Miscellaneous

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 certain books on Dickinson. There are also other Dickinson books in the stacks, but be careful--some are older and out-of-date.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).

• Cameron, Sharon. Choosing Not Choosing : Dickinson's Fascicles. 811.4 D56Dc2.
  
  
• Farr, Judith. The Passion of Emily Dickinson. 811.4 D56Bfa.
  
  
• Franklin, R. W., ed. The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson. (2 volumes) (my copies).
  
  
• Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic : The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-century Literary Imagination. 820.99287 G376m.
  
  
• Grabher, Gubrun. The Emily Dickinson Handbook. 811.4 D56 Ded.
  
  
• Habegger, Alfred. My Wars Are Laid Away in Books : The Life of Emily Dickinson. 811.4 D56Bha 2002.
  
  
• Hart, Ellen Louise, and Martha Nell Smith. Open Me Carefully : Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson. 811.4 D56Bd7.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Johnson, Thomas H., ed. Emily Dickinson: Selected Letters. (my copy).
  
  
• Noble, Marianne. The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature. 810.9353 N667m 2000.
  
  
• Porter, David T. Dickinson, the Modern Idiom. 811.4 D56Dpor2 c.2.
  
  
• Reynolds, David S. Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville. 810.9003 R333b 1989.
  
  
• Rosenbaum, S.P. A Concordance to the Poems of ED. 1st fl Ref 811.4 D56Dro.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Walker, Cheryl. The Nightingale's Burden : Women Poets and American Culture before 1900. 811.0099287 W151n.
  
  
• Wolff, Cynthia Griffin. Emily Dickinson. 811.4 D56Bwo.
  
  
• Adrienne Rich. "Vesuvius at Home: The Power of Emily Dickinson." In On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978, by Adrienne Rich. 818.54 R37o.

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.

• Unfastening the Fascicles--links to scholarly papers on the fascicles: Robert Bray, "Why Thoughts Are Better Than Music, or Emily Dickinson's Fascicle 18 as a Lyric Sequence"; Paul James Crumbley, "Fascicle 1: The Gambler's Recollection"; Eleanor Elson Heginbotham, "Dickinson's Aesthetics and Fascicle 21"; Daneen Leigh Wardrop, "The Nameless Pod' and Other Miscarriages of Language in Dickinson's Fascicle 28."
  
  
• Martha Nell Smith, "Rowing in Eden: Reading Dickinson Reading" --scholarly article.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 2008 ED Journal Index --links to 4 scholarly articles (Jane Donahue Eberwein, "'Earth's Confiding Time': Childhood Trust and Christian Nurture"; Linda Freedman, "'Meadows of Majesty': Baptism as Translation in Emily Dickinson’s Poetry"; Hiroko Uno, "Emily Dickinson‘s Encounter with the East: Chinese Museum in Boston"; Sabine Sielke, "'The Brain - is wider than the Sky - ' or: Re-Cognizing Emily Dickinson").
  
  
• 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; includes a number of letters to Sue, plus some critical commentary.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Diana Fuss's Interior Chambers: The Emily Dickinson Homestead, differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 10.3 (1998) 1-46 --scholarly article.
  
  
• Mayer's Finding Herself Alone: Emily Dickinson, Victorian Women Novelists, and the Female Subject Romanticism on the Net, Numéro 38-39, Mai 2005--scholarly article.
  
  
• Dickinson's Wild Nights by James L. Dean, Explicator, Winter93, Vol. 51 Issue 2, p91, 3p--short, scholarly article (close reading).
  
  
• Dickinson's I know that he exists by David Rutledge, Explicator, Winter94, Vol. 52 Issue 2, p81, 3p--short, scholarly article (close reading).
  
  
• Dickinson's A Narrow Fellow in the Grass by George Monteiro, Explicator, Fall92, Vol. 51 Issue 1, p20, 3p--short, scholarly article (close reading).
  
  
• Dickinson's Because I Could Not Stop for Death by M.N. Shaw, Explicator, Fall91, Vol. 50 Issue 1, p20, 2p--short, scholarly article (close reading).
  
  
• "Soul at the White Heat": The Romance of Emily Dickinson's Poetry--a modern writer's insightful assessment of the nature of Dickinson's poetry and genius.
  
  
• Emily Dickinson --excerpts from scholarly studies on a number of D's poems.
  
  
• Omissions Are Not Accidents: Erasures & Cancellations in Emily Dickinson's Manuscripts--scholarly article.
  
  
• Jane Donahue Eberwein, Is Immortality True? Salvaging Faith in an Age of Upheavals --scholarly article.
  
  
• Barton Levi St. Armand, Dark Parade: Dickinson, Sigourney, and the Victorian Way of Death--chapter in St. Armand's scholarly book.

MISCELLANEOUS

• Emily Dickinson's Lexicon--"a reference tool for examining the lexical intricacies of Dickinson’s poems . . . and to provide information from Webster’s 1844 dictionary that Dickinson herself may have drawn upon."
  
  
• Philip A. Gura, News--new photo of Emily; story of its discovery. See also a contemporary color portrait of Emily.
  
  
• The Classroom Electric --many helpful links to explore, but no fully developed scholarly articles. Good for topic-browsing.
  
  
• Emily and the Civil War [Fascicle 33] --interesting approach to analyzing a fascicle (be sure to follow the links at the bottom of the pages), perhaps a model for approaching any of the fascicles in more detail.
• The "Master" Letters: Reverend Charles Wadsworth--a summary of the standard candidates for mystery lover, plus a newer candidate.

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