The International Reception of Emily Dickinson

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Emily Dickinson's poetry is known and read worldwide but to date there have been no studies of her reception and influence outside America. This collection of essays brings together international research on her reception abroad including translations, circulation and the responses of private and professional readers to her poetry in different countries. The contributors address key translations of individual poems and lyric sequences; Dickinson's influence on other writers, poets and culture more broadly; biographical constructions of Dickinson as a poet; the political cultural and linguistic contexts of translations; and adaptations into other media. It will appeal to all those interested in the international reception of Dickinson and nineteenth-century American literature more widely.

Jeremy Hawthorn is Professor of British Literature, Paul Goring is Professor of British Literature and Domhnall Mitchell is Professor of American Literature. All three are at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. Domhnall Mitchell is Professor of 19th century American Literature in the Department of Modern Languages at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. Maria Stuart is College Lecturer in American Literature in the School of English and Drama at University College Dublin, Ireland.

The essays in this collection make an important and timely contribution to Dickinson scholarship, documenting but also explaining the nuances of Dickinson's appreciation, appropriation and influence outside the United States. This fascinating book expands our understanding of Dickinson's twentieth-century reception, showing how scholars, readers, writers, and translators from Europe, Japan, South America, Israel, Australia and Canada confirm critical and theoretical trends in Dickinson scholarship, but also offer different approaches to her work, new insights and fresh perspectives. -- Dr Paraic Finnerty, Lecturer in English Literature, University of Portsmouth, UK. The contributors to this body of work explore the variety of impacts the New England poet and her work have had outside her native country and, in doing so, chart her influence, appropriation, and appreciation over more than a century, offering new insights and fresh perspectives. * The Year's Work in English Studies, Volume 90 * This fascinating, timely study resource is an important contribution to the study of one of America's premier poets. Summing up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above. -- P.J. Ferlazzo * Choice, April 2010 * Dickinson's poetry ultimately insists on the intersection of different fields and territories of experience in mutual interrogation and investigation. This, I would argue, is the aesthetic that emerges-surprisingly and yet also inexorably-out of the cross-cultural experiences of Dickinson assembled in this collection: the lyric as a site of encounter among multiple and variant fields of experience. -- Shira Wolosky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem * Comparative Literature Studies, Vol. 49, No. 3 *