Religion Around Emily Dickinson: 2 - Rilegato

Gilpin, W. Clark

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ISBN 10: 0271064765 ISBN 13: 9780271064765

Casa editrice: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, 2014

Riassunto

Religion Around Emily Dickinson begins with the seeming paradox posed by Emily Dickinson's posthumously published works--while her poems and letters contain explicitly religious themes and concepts, throughout her life she resisted joining her local church and rarely attended services. W. Clark Gilpin shows how Dickinson's contemporary religious culture, specifically New England Protestant Christianity, helps us to appreciate her poetry, and how her poetry brings attention to religious aspects of her culture and surroundings. To do so the author looks at three connotations of "religion around." Gilpin first looks at the religious practices, literature, architecture, and ideas that Dickinson encountered in nineteenth-century Amherst, the how this Protestant culture influenced her writing. Finally, he examines both religion's shaping influence on normative patterns of social organization in the period such as gender roles, status, and education, and how Dickinson imaginatively reshaped religious practice and ideas through her poetry to create her own personal perspective on what it meant to be religious in the nineteenth century. The religion around Emily Dickinson belongs to a complex, multifaceted historical and social context. In this book Gilpin seeks to better understand the workings of Dickinson's creative imagination and to refine a clearer sense of the cultural role performed by religion in nineteenth-century America.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

W. Clark Gilpin is Margaret E. Burton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity and Theology in the University of Chicago Divinity School.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0271064765
• ISBN 13: 9780271064765
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 200