{"title":"Emily Dickinson’s Forbidding Books","authors":"Jerome McGann","doi":"10.1353/srm.2021.0031","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Emily Dickinson’s most important books were the hand-sewn manuscript books she made for her own verse and that no one read or saw before she died. Acts of spiritual testimony, their closest poetic forebear is surely the Bay Psalm Book, which was a conscious effort to deliver a literal translation of the Hebrew language that was the vehicle for making contact with God. Dickinson’s fascicles are thus books of revelation, dramatic performances meant to bear witness rather than deliver messages or solicit interpretation. They are pre-eminently driven by metrics not meanings.","PeriodicalId":44848,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2022-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/srm.2021.0031","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:Emily Dickinson’s most important books were the hand-sewn manuscript books she made for her own verse and that no one read or saw before she died. Acts of spiritual testimony, their closest poetic forebear is surely the Bay Psalm Book, which was a conscious effort to deliver a literal translation of the Hebrew language that was the vehicle for making contact with God. Dickinson’s fascicles are thus books of revelation, dramatic performances meant to bear witness rather than deliver messages or solicit interpretation. They are pre-eminently driven by metrics not meanings.
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Studies in Romanticism was founded in 1961 by David Bonnell Green at a time when it was still possible to wonder whether "romanticism" was a term worth theorizing (as Morse Peckham deliberated in the first essay of the first number). It seemed that it was, and, ever since, SiR (as it is known to abbreviation) has flourished under a fine succession of editors: Edwin Silverman, W. H. Stevenson, Charles Stone III, Michael Cooke, Morton Palet, and (continuously since 1978) David Wagenknecht. There are other fine journals in which scholars of romanticism feel it necessary to appear - and over the years there are a few important scholars of the period who have not been represented there by important work.
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