About this Book

Emily Dickinson, A User’s Guide presents a comprehensive introduction to the life and works of Emily Dickinson, Offers a richly appreciative biographical and critical introduction to America’s most widely admired woman poet

• Written by a world-renowned Emily Dickinson scholar and American literary critic
• Represents the only book that reads Dickinson through her manuscripts, the print editions of her work, and the major digital Dickinson editions published since 1994
• The User’s Guide is a new kind of book for a new era of reading
• Is the only book that is an introduction to the poet, her work, and her receptions among readers
• Is the only book that presents new biography and textual discoveries that have just come to light in 2011
•   Interprets Dickinson through the dynamic interchange between the reader’s sense of her life and her work
• Draws on prominent critical views from the past century, including sentimental, modernist, new critical, psychological, feminist, queer, and postmodernist readings