| Experience and Faith: The Late-Romantic Imagination of Emily Dickinson 2005 Edition Contributor(s): Brantley, R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1403966303 ISBN-13: 9781403966308 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2005 Annotation: The empirical/evangelical dialectic of Romantic Anglo-America culminates in the poetry of Emily Dickinson (1830-86). For example, just as her poems of science and technology reflect her faith in experience, and just as her lyrics about natural history build on this empiricism and develop her commitment to natural religion, so too do her poems of revealed religion constitute her experience of faith. Thus, for an American audience, Dickinson recasts British-Romantic themes of natural and spiritual perception. This double perspective, this counterintuitive combination of natural models with spiritual metaphors, parallels the androgynous ideal of her nineteenth-century feminism and champions her belief in immortality. The experience/faith paradox of her Late-Romantic imagination forms the mind and soul, as well as the heart, of her legacy. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Literary Criticism | Women Authors - Literary Criticism | Gothic & Romance |
| Dewey: 811.4 |
| LCCN: 2004046967 |
| Physical Information: 0.91" H x 6.32" W x 9.5" (1.25 lbs) 275 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
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| Publisher Description: Emily Dickinson (1830-86) recasts British-Romantic themes of natural and spiritual perception for an American audience. Her poems of science and technology reflect her faith in experience. Her lyrics about natural history build on this empiricism and develop her commitment to natural religion. Her poems of revealed religion constitute her experience of faith. Thus Dickinson stands on the experiential common ground between empiricism and evangelicalism in Romantic Anglo-America. Her double perspective parallels the implicit androgyny of her nineteenth-century feminism. Her counterintuitive combination of natural models with spiritual metaphors champions immortality. The experience/faith dialectic of her Late-Romantic imagination forms the heart of her legacy. |
