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Authors: Domhnall Mitchell
ISBN-13: 9781558494565, ISBN-10: 1558494561
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Date Published: September 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Domhnall Mitchell

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Table of Contents

Prologue : Emily has left the building1
1Packaging Emily : Dickinson in books19
2Getting nearer, knowing less : Emily Dickinson's correspondence with Susan Gilbert Dickinson56
3"Because I could not say it - I fixed it in the verse" : Dickinson and Samuel Bowles100
4"The way I read a letter's - this" : Dickinson and genre131
5"The ear is the last face" : the manuscript as archive of rhythm and rhyme191
6"Bells whose jingling cooled my tramp" : Dickinson and meter223
7Toward a culture of measurement in manuscript study265
Postscript : "where the meanings, are"313

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