Emily Dickinson and Her Culture : The Soul's Society (Paperback)

Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Apologia: an art of assemblage; 1. Keepsakes: Mary Warner's scrapbook; 2. Dark parade: Dickinson, Sigourney, and the Victorian way of death; 3. Kindred spirits: Dickinson, Stowe, and the wars of romance; 4. Paradise deferred; Dickinson, Phelps, and the image of heaven; 5. American grotesque: Dickinson, God, and folk forms; 6. The earthly paradise: Dickinson, Ruskin, and Victorian aesthetics; 8. The art of peace: Dickinson, sunsets, and the sublime; Appendices; Notes; Index.