{"product_id":"dickinsons-misery-9780691119915","title":"Dickinsons Misery","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoses fundamental questions about reading habits we have come to take for granted. Featuring illustrations from Dickinson's manuscripts, this book makes a contribution to the study of Dickinson and of nineteenth-century American poetry. It also maps out the future for work in historical poetics and lyric theory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2006 Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards Winner of the 2005 Prize for a First Book, Modern Language Association \"Beautifully written, witty, incisive, learned, savvy, generous, and generative, Dickinson's Misery has no contemporary peer, synthesizing as it does knowledge of a vast range of relevant philosophy, poetic theory, and poetry as Jackson's inquiry opens up territories none other has thought to explore.\"--Martha Nell Smith, American Literature \"Jackson seeks to engage with the reader in exploring various theories of the lyric, and to find a way into a range of lyric genres (songs, notes, letters, elegies, valentines, verse) in order to consider them as alternatives to a singular idea of the lyric. The book is beautifully illustrated with a range of Dickinson material which allows the reader to appreciate the images of her writing as an essential element in 'reading' the past.\"--The Year's Work in English Studies (2007)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations ix  Acknowledgments xiii  Abbreviations xvii  Beforehand 1  Chapter One: Dickinson Undone 16  Bird-tracks 16  \"When what they sung for ...\" 26  Lyric Context 31  Hybrid Poems 38  Dickinson Unbound 45  The Archive 53  Chapter Two: Lyric Reading 68  \"My Cricket\" 68  Lyric Alienation 92  Lyric Theory 100  Against (Lyric) Theory 109  Chapter Three: Dickinson's Figure of Address 118  \"The only poets\" 118  Lyric Media 126  \"The man who makes sheets of paper\" 133  \"You-there-I-here\" 142  \"The most pathetic thing I do\" 158  Chapter Four: \"Faith in Anatomy\" 166  Achilles' Head 166  The Interpretant 179  \"No Bird-yet rode in Ether--\" 185  The Queen's Place 196  Chapter Five: Dickinson's Misery 204  \"Misery, how fair\" 204  \"The Literature of Misery\" 212  \"This Chasm\" 219  \"And bore her safe away\" 228  Conclusion 235  Notes 241  Selected Works Cited 275  Index 293","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403734491479,"sku":"9780691119915","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691119915.jpg?v=1730484392","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dickinsons-misery-9780691119915","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}