Introduction&WENDY MARTIN 1
BIOGRAPHY AND PUBLICATION HISTORY 11
1 The Emily Dickinson wars&BETSY ERKKILA 11
2 Emily Dickinson and the American South&CHRISTOPHER BENFEY 30
3 Susan and Emily Dickinson：their lives,in letters&MARTHA NELL SMITH 51
POETIC STRATEGIES AND THEMES 77
4 Emily Dickinson and poetic strategy&WENDY BARKER 77
5 Emily Dickinson's existential dramas&FRED D.WHITE 91
6 Performances of gender in Dickinson's poetry&SUZANNE JUHASZ AND CRISTANNE MILLER 107
7 Emily Dickinson：being in the body&SHIRA WOLOSKY 129
8 Emily Dickinson and the Gothic in Fascicle 16&DANEEN WARDROP 142
CULTURAL CONTEXTS 167
9 Emily Dickinson and popular culture&DAVID S.REYNOLDS 167
10 Emily Dickinson and class&DOMHNALL MITCHELL 191
11 Emily Dickinson and her American women poet peers&PAULA BERNAT BENNETT 215
Select bibliography 236
Index 245