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Reviewers' despair : the politics of Dickinjson's critical reception during the 1890s
Verfasst von:
Messmer, Marietta
in:
Heidelberg:
2000
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373 - 386 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Messmer, Marietta |
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| Jahr: | 2000 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| Emily Dickinson's critical reception during the 1890s has frequently been reduced to a form-content debate "between those who believed poetry could dispense with traditional form and finish and those who believed it could not" (Buckingham). Yet Willis J. Buckingham's "Emily Dickinson's reception in the 1890s", a compilation of all 600 extant notes and review articles published during this decade, has begun to change this picture. Based on Buckingham's compilation, this paper revisits Dickinson's critical reception during the 1890s by further exploring some of the historico-political contexts that motivated several of the poet's most influential negative reviews. Concentrating on (1) the power-dynamics at play between the two major literary centers of the 1880s and 1890s, New York and Boston, and (2) on the ways in which professional opposition between British and American critics influenced British responses to Dickinson's poetry, I shall argue that many of these politico-territorial rivalries can ultimately be read as (3) discriminations against female-gendered forms of reception that attempted to transcend the narrowly-defined genre of "critical review". | |
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