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For more than half a century, the story of Emily Dickinson’s “Master” documents has been the largely biographical tale of three letters to an unidentified individual. Writing in Time seeks to tell a different story—the story of the documents themselves. Rather than presenting the “Master” documents...

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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-577822022-08-06T03:00:12Z Writing in Time Werner, Marta L. Dickinson, Emily, -- 1830-1886 -- Criticism and interpretation. Dickinson, Emily, -- 1830-1886 -- Correspondence. Dickinson, Emily, -- 1830-1886 -- Criticism, Textual. bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSC Literary studies: poetry & poets For more than half a century, the story of Emily Dickinson’s “Master” documents has been the largely biographical tale of three letters to an unidentified individual. Writing in Time seeks to tell a different story—the story of the documents themselves. Rather than presenting the “Master” documents as quarantined from Dickinson’s larger scene of textual production, Marta Werner’s innovative new edition proposes reading them next to Dickinson’s other major textual experiment in the years between ca. 1858–1861: the Fascicles. In both, Dickinson can be seen testing the limits of address and genre in order to escape bibliographical determination and the very coordinates of “mastery” itself. A major event in Dickinson scholarship, Writing in Time: Emily Dickinson’s Master Hours proposes new constellations of Dickinson’s work as well as exciting new methodologies for textual scholarship as an act of “intimate editorial investigation.” 2022-08-05T12:46:01Z 2022-08-05T12:46:01Z 2021 book ONIX_20220805_9781943208197_11 9781943208197 9781943208180 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57782 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781943208197.pdf Amherst College Press Amherst College Press 10.3998/mpub.12023683 10.3998/mpub.12023683 bd61c84b-c01e-472d-a7b1-a72ad38700ed 9781943208197 9781943208180 Amherst College Press 126 open access
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description For more than half a century, the story of Emily Dickinson’s “Master” documents has been the largely biographical tale of three letters to an unidentified individual. Writing in Time seeks to tell a different story—the story of the documents themselves. Rather than presenting the “Master” documents as quarantined from Dickinson’s larger scene of textual production, Marta Werner’s innovative new edition proposes reading them next to Dickinson’s other major textual experiment in the years between ca. 1858–1861: the Fascicles. In both, Dickinson can be seen testing the limits of address and genre in order to escape bibliographical determination and the very coordinates of “mastery” itself. A major event in Dickinson scholarship, Writing in Time: Emily Dickinson’s Master Hours proposes new constellations of Dickinson’s work as well as exciting new methodologies for textual scholarship as an act of “intimate editorial investigation.”
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