Notes on Contributors viii Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Sources xv Acknowledgments xvi Introduction 1 Martha Nell Smith and Mary Loeffelholz Part I: Biography - the Myth of "the Myth" 9 1 Architecture of the Unseen 11 Aife Murray 2 Fracturing a Master Narrative, Reconstructing "Sister Sue" 37 Ingrid Satelmajer 3 Public, Private Spheres: What Reading Emily Dickinson's Mail Taught me about Civil Wars 58 Martha Nell Smith 4 "Pretty much all real life": The Material World of the Dickinson Family 79 Jane Wald Part II: The Civil War - Historical and Political Contexts 105 5 "Drums off the Phantom Battlements": Dickinson's War Poems in Discursive Context 107 Faith Barrett 6 The Eagle's Eye: Dickinson's View of Battle 133 Renée Bergland 7 "How News Must Feel When Traveling": Dickinson and Civil War Media 157 Eliza Richards Part III: Cultural Contexts - Literature, Philosophy, Theology, Science 181 8 Really Indigenous Productions: Emily Dickinson, Josiah Holland, and Nineteenth-Century Popular Verse 183 Mary Loeffelholz 9 Thinking Dickinson Thinking Poetry 205 Virginia Jackson 10 Dickinson and the Exception 222 Max Cavitch 11 Dickinson's Uses of Spiritualism: The "Nature" of Democratic Belief 235 Paul Crumbley 12 "Forever - is Composed of Nows -": Emily Dickinson's Conception of Time 258 Gudrun M. Grabher 13 God's Place in Dickinson's Ecology 269 Nancy Mayer Part IV: Textual Conditions: Manuscripts, Printings, Digital Surrogates 279 14 Auntie Gus Felled It New 281 Tim Morris 15 Reading Dickinson in Her Context: The Fascicles 288 Eleanor Elson Heginbotham 16 The Poetics of Interruption: Dickinson, Death, and the Fascicles 309 Alexandra Socarides 17 Climates of the Creative Process: Dickinson's Epistolary Journal 334 Connie Ann Kirk 18 Hearing the Visual Lines: How Manuscript Study Can Contribute to an Understanding of Dickinson's Prosody 348 Ellen Louise Hart, with Sandra Chung 19 "The Thews of Hymn": Dickinson's Metrical Grammar 368 Michael L. Manson 20 Dickinson's Structured Rhythms 391 Cristanne Miller 21 A Digital Regiving: Editing the Sweetest Messages in the Dickinson Electronic Archives 415 Tanya Clement 22 Editing Dickinson in an Electronic Environment 437 Lara Vetter Part V: Poetry & Media - Dickinson's Legacies 453 23 "Dare you see a soul at the White Heat?": Thoughts on a "Little Home-keeping Person" 455 Sandra M. Gilbert 24 Re-Playing the Bible: My Emily Dickinson 462 Alicia Ostriker 25 "For Flash and Click and Suddenness-": Emily Dickinson and the Photography-Effect 471 Marta L. Werner 26 "Zero to the Bone": Thelonious Monk, Emily Dickinson, and the Rhythms of Modernism 490 Joshua Weiner Index of First Lines 496 Index of Letters of Emily Dickinson 500 Index 503.