Type of Credit: Elective
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This course seeks to offer a survey of Dickinson’s critical receptions through selected texts in a coherent manner and enable students to make connections between Dickinson’s personal life, her literary works and the public and social issues in American literary studies.
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This course examines Emily Dickinson’s works, life, influences in the nineteenth century and her later receptions. Particular attentions are paid to various theoretical approaches and methodologies, such as the relationships of her works to the social and cultural issues of her time, the topics of religion, science, gender and genre, her reading and contemporary influences, and the afterlife of Dickinson’s works.
| 教學週次Course Week | 彈性補充教學週次Flexible Supplemental Instruction Week | 彈性補充教學類別Flexible Supplemental Instruction Type |
|---|---|---|
Week 1: Dickinson and Her Editors
Week 2: Dickinson's Amherst
Week 3: Dickinson's Education
Week 4: Dickinson and New England
Week 5: Dickinson, Religion and Slavery
Week 6: Dickinson and the British Writers
Week 7: Dickinson's American Contemporaries
Week 8: Dickinson and Science
Week 9: Mid-term Break
Week 10: Dickinson and Sexuality
Week 11: Dickinson, Susan, and Gender
Week 12: Performing Dickinson (Movie Week!)
Week 13: Dickinson's Manuscripts
Week 14: Translating Dickinson
Week 15: Dickinson's Adaption
Week 16: Final paper Due
Week 17: Autonomous Learning Week I (Dickinson and the Newspapers)
Week 18: Autonomous Learning Week II (Dickinson and Ecologies Conference)
Class participation 10% + Online participation 10% + Presentation 30 % + One Essay (4-5000 words) 50 %
Primary reading list:
The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition. 1998.
The Letters of Emily Dickinson. Johnson edition. 1958.
The Poems of Emily Dickinson. Franklin reading edition. 2005.
Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them. Cristanne Miller, ed. 2016.
Secondary reading list:
Baym, Nina. American Women of Letters and the Nineteenth-Century Sciences: Styles of Affiliation, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2001. Print.
Benfey, Christopher. Emily Dickinson and the Problem of Others. Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1984. Print.
Bingham, Millicent Todd. Emily Dickinson's Home: Letters of Edward Dickinson and His Family. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1955. Print.
Bloom, Harold. Emily Dickinson. New York: Chelsea House, 2008. Print.
Brantley, Richard E. Experience and Faith: The Late-Romantic Imagination of Emily Dickinson. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Print.
Cameron, Sharon. Lyric Time: Dickinson and the Limits of Genre. Baltimore & London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979. Print.
---. Choosing Not Choosing: Dickinson's Fascicles. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. Print.
Deppman, Jed. Trying to Think with Emily Dickinson. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008. Print.
Diehl, Joanne Feit. Dickinson and the Romantic Imagination. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1981. Print.
Eberwein, Jane Donahue. Dickinson: Strategies of Limitation. Amherst, Massachusetts: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1987. Print.
Erkkila, Betsy. The Wicked Sisters: Woman Poets, Literary History, and Discord. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. Print.
Farr, Judith. The Garden of Emily Dickinson. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2004. Print.
Finnerty, Páraic. Emily Dickinson's Shakespeare. Amherst & Boston, University of Massachusetts Press, 2006. Print.
Fuss, Diana. The Sense of An Interior: Four Writers and the Rooms that Shaped Them. New York: Routledge, 2004. Print.
Gelpi, Albert. Emily Dickinson: the Mind of the Poet. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1965. Print.
Guthrie, James R. Emily Dickinson's Vision: Illness and Identity in Her Poetry. Gainesville: Florida, University Press of Florida, 1998. Print.
Habegger, Alfred. My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson. New York: The Modern Library, 2001. Print.
Homans, Margaret. Women Writers and Poetic Identity: Dorothy Wordsworth, Emily Brontë, and Emily Dickinson. Princeton: New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1980. Print.
Howe, Susan. My Emily Dickinson. New York: A New Directions Book, 2007. Print.
Juhasz, Suzanne. The Undiscovered Continent: Emily Dickinson and the Space of the Mind. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983. Print.
Keller, Karl. The Only Kangaroo among the Beauty: Emily Dickinson and America. Baltimore, Maryland: The John Hopkins University Press, 1979. Print.
Kohler, Michelle. The New Emily Dickinson Studies. University of Cambridge Press, 2019.
Lindberg-Seyersted, Brita. The Voice of the Poet: Aspects of Style in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson. Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksells Boktryckeri AB, 1968. Print.
Loeffelholz, Mary. Dickinson and the Boundaries of Feminist Theory. Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1991. Print.
Lundin, Roger. Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief. Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2004. Print.
Mamunes, George. “So has a Daisy vanished”: Emily Dickinson and Tuberculosis. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. Print.
McIntosh, James. Nimble Believing: Dickinson and the Unknown. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2004. Print.
McNeil, Helen. Emily Dickinson, London: Virago Press, 1986. Print.
Miller, Cristanne. Emily Dickinson: A Poet's Grammar. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1987. Print.
---, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Emily Dickinson. The Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Mitchell, Domhnall. Emily Dickinson: Monarch of Perception. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000a. Print.
Ostriker, Alicia. Stealing the Language: the Emergence of Women’s Poetry in America. London: Women’s Press, 1987. Print.
Paglia, Camille. Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson. London: Penguin, 1992. Print.
Patterson, Rebecca. Emily Dickinson's Imagery. Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1979. Print.
Peel, Robin. Emily Dickinson and the Hill of Science. Madison: Teaneck, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2010. Print.
Porter, David. Dickinson: The Modern Idiom. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1981. Print.
Reynolds, David S. Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Print.
Richards, Eliza. Emily Dickinson in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Sewall, Richard B. The Life of Emily Dickinson. Cambridge: Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1994. Print.
Socarides, Alexandra. Dickinson Unbound: Paper, Process, Poetics. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Print.
St Armand, Barton Levi. Emily Dickinson and Her Culture: The Soul's Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Print.
Stonum, Gary Lee. The Dickinson Sublime. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1990. Print.
Uno, Hiroko. Emily Dickinson Visits Boston. Kyoto: Yamaguchi Publishing House, 1990. Print.
---. Emily Dickinson’s Marble Disc: A Poetics of Renunciation and Science. Tokyo, Japan: Eihosha, 2002. Print.
Wardrop, Daneen. Emily Dickinson' Gothic: Goblin with A Gauge. Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 1996. Print.
---. Word, Birth, and Culture: The Poetry of Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson, Connecticut: Westport, London, 2002b. Print.
---. Emily Dickinson and the Labor of Clothing, Durham, New Hampshire: University of New Hampshire Press, 2009. Print.
Weisbuch, Robert. Emily Dickinson's Poetry. Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 1972. Print.
Wolff, Cynthia Griffin. Emily Dickinson. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1988. Print.
Wolosky, Shira. Emily Dickinson: A Voice of War. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1984. Print.
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