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"Turn it, a little": the influence of the daguerreotype and the stereograph on Emily Dickinson's use of manuscript variants.(Critical Essay)

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From: Mosaic (Winnipeg)
Date: 20050301
Author:Hubbard, Melanie

The advents of the daguerreotype and the stereograph, with their non-self-identical physical properties and the naturalizing discourses surrounding their emergence, gave Dickinson the terms with which to think about knowledge and representation in words. Her retention of variants in the poems enacts analogously non-self-identical representational strategies.

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Why did Emily Dickinson write the way she did? Not only did she eschew print for her poems, but as she collected them--with increasing intensity during the years of the Civil War--into manuscript ...

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