Rowing in Eden: Rereading Emily Dickinson Smith Martha Nell
Rowing in Eden: Rereading Emily Dickinson Smith Martha Nell Emily Dickinson wrote a letter to the world and left it lying in her drawer more than a century ago. Since the posthumous discovery of her…
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Rowing in Eden: Rereading Emily Dickinson Smith Martha Nell
Emily Dickinson wrote a letter to the world and left it lying in her drawer more than a century ago. Since the posthumous discovery of her work, general readers and literary scholars alike have puzzled over this paradox of wanting to communicate widely and yet apparently refusing to publish. This widely admired epistle was her poems, which were never conventionally published in book form during her lifetime.
and Who was her most important contemporary audience? In this pathbreaking study, Martha Nell Smith unravels the paradox by boldly recasting two of the oldest and still most frequently asked questions about Emily Dickinson: Why didn't she publish more poems while she was alive? Regarding the question of publication, Smith urges a reconception of the act of publication itself.
She argues that Dickinson did publish her work in letters and in forty manuscript books that circulated