Emily Dickinson: Woman Poet

La 4e de couv. indique : "This internationally acclaimed study is a major contribution to our understanding of representations of female sexuality in Art and in literature. This edition includes a substantial new introduction by the author. Professor Bennett illuminates Dickinson's desire to be a "strong" woman poet against the background of her situation as a 19th-century woman. The authro provides clear, incisive analyses of Dickinson's poetry, with a wide-angle view of the poet's cultural situation. She also gives sensitive discussion of Dickinson's sexual imagery."