Notes on Contributors Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Sources Introduction: Martha Nell Smith and Mary Loeffelholz Part I: Biography - the Myth of 'the Myth': 1. Architecture of the Unseen: Aife Murray 2. Fracturing a Master Narrative, Reconstructing 'Sister Sue': Ingrid Satelmajer (University of Maryland, College Park) 3. Public, Private Spheres: What Reading Emily Dickinson's Mail Taught me about Civil Wars: Martha Nell Smith (University of Maryland) 4. 'Pretty much all real life': The Material World of the Dickinson Family: Jane Wald (Emily Dickinson Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts) Part II: The Civil War - Historical and Political Contexts: 5. 'Drums off the Phantom Battlements': Dickinson's War Poems in Discursive Context: Faith Barrett (Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin) 6. The Eagle's Eye: Dickinson's View of Battle: Ren¬e Bergland (Simmons College, Boston) 7. 'How News Must Feel When Traveling': Dickinson and Civil War Media: Eliza Richards (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Part III: Cultural Contexts - Literature, Philosophy, Theology, Science: 8.
Really Indigenous Productions: Emily Dickinson, Josiah Holland, and Nineteenth-Century Popular Verse: Mary Loeffelholz (Northeastern University) 9. Thinking Dickinson Thinking Poetry: Virginia Jackson (Tufts University) 10. Dickinson and the Exception: Max Cavitch (University of Pennsylvania) 11. Dickinson's Uses of Spiritualism: The 'Nature' of Democratic Belief: Paul Crumbley (Utah State University) 12. 'Forever - is Composed of Nows - ': Emily Dickinson's Conception of Time': Gudrun M. Grabher (University of Innsbruck, Austria) 13. God's Place in Dickinson's Ecology: Nancy Mayer (Northwest Missouri State University) Part IV: Textual Conditions: Manuscripts, Printings, Digital Surrogates: 14. Auntie Gus Felled It New: Tim Morris (University of Texas at Arlington) 15.
Reading Dickinson in Her Context: The Fascicles: Eleanor Elson Heginbotham (Concordia University Saint Paul) 16. The Poetics of Interruption: Dickinson, Death, and the Fascicles: Alexandra Socarides (University of Missouri-Columbia) 17. Climates of the Creative Process: Dickinson's Epistolary Journal: Connie Ann Kirk (Mansfield University, Pennsylvania) 18. Hearing the Visual Lines: How Manuscript Study Can Contribute to an Understanding of Dickinson's Prosody: Ellen Louise Hart with Sandra Chung (University of California at Santa Cruz) 19. 'The Thews of Hymn': Dickinson's Metrical Grammar: Michael L. Manson (American University) 20. 'Dickinson's Structured Rhythms': Cristanne Miller (University at Buffalo, SUNY) 21. A Digital Regiving: Editing the Sweetest Messages in the Dickinson Electronic Archives: Tanya Clement (University of Maryland) 22.
Editing Dickinson in an Electronic Environment: Lara Vetter (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) Part V: Poetry & Media - Dickinson's Legacies: 23. 'Dare you see a soul at the White Heat?': Thoughts on a 'Little Home-keeping Person': Sandra M. Gilbert (University of California, Davis) 24. Re-Playing the Bible: My Emily Dickinson: Alicia Ostriker 25. 'For Flash and Click and Suddenness-': Emily Dickinson and the Photography-Effect: Marta L. Werner 26 'Zero to the Bone': Thelonious Monk, Emily Dickinson, and the Rhythms of Modernism: Joshua Weiner (University of Maryland) Index of First Lines Index of Letters of Emily Dickinson Index.