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Emily Dickinson and Her Contemporaries: Women's Verse in America, 1820-1885
From: The Virginia Quarterly Review
Date: 19990101
Author:Anonymous
Emily Dickinson and Her Contemporaries: Women's Verse in America, 1820-1885, by Elizabeth A. Petrino.
Emily Dickinson's work has typically been compared to that of her "great" male contemporaries, but, as Petrino argues here, there is much to learn from reading her against the women poets of her time. Like them, Dickinson uses figurative language to veil her subversive views about social conventions while still appearing to epitomize the ideal Victorian woman. Besides exploring a broad spectrum of poetry, the author looks at contemporary magazines, unpublished correspondence, paintings, and ...
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