Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1: Dickinson's Sheets Chapter 2: Epistolary Practices and the Problem of Genre Chapter 3: Sewing the Fascicles: Elegy, Consolation, and the Poetics of Interruption Chapter 4: Dickinson's "Sets" and the Rejection of Sequence Chapter 5: Methods of Unmaking: Dickinson's Late Drafts, Scraps, and Fragments Afterword Index

About the Author

Alexandra Socarides is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Missouri.

Reviews

"This is by far the best book on Dickinson I have read in a long time. It is an important and timely contribution to Dickinson studies, to the history of the book, to the history of reading, and a crucial contribution to the emerging field of nineteenth-century historical poetics."--Virginia Jackson, author of Dickinson's Misery: A Theory of Lyric Reading "Socarides' close attention to Dickinson's compositional practices is so interesting that it's astonishing that it's taken this long for such a book to appear-although the demanding nature of her primary archival work may explain why it has not. Dickinson Unbound sets a high standard for rigor and care of inference in Dickinson manuscript studies." --Mary Loeffelholz, author of From School to Salon: Reading Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry "Characterized by rigorous scholarship, Socarides's invaluable inquiry into method sets a precedent for Dickinson studies...Highly recommended." --Choice "[O]ffers an exciting and insightful intervention into Dickinson studies while also suggesting new avenues for approaching women's poetry of the nineteenth century." --Legacy