Emily Dickinson

1. Reaching 1850
Linda Wagner-Martin

2. Dickinson’s Search, to Find the Poem of Her Being
Linda Wagner-Martin

3. Losses into Art
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4. Dickinson’s Expanding Readership
Linda Wagner-Martin

5. Dickinson and War
Linda Wagner-Martin

6. Colonel Higginson as Mentor
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7. Life Without Home, For the Last Time
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8. Dickinson’s Fascicles, Beginnings and Endings
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9. The Painful Interim
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10. To Define “Belief”
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11. 1865, The Late Miracle
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12. Maintaining Urgency
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13. Colonel Higginson, Appearing
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14. 1870–1873
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15. The Beginning of the Calendar of Deaths
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16. Surviving Death
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17. “Mother’s Hopeless Illness”
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18. Courtships
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19. “The Poets Light but Lamps”
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20. The Loving Dickinson
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21. Afterword
Linda Wagner-Martin

Keywords: Literature, North American Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Gender Studies, Poetry and Poetics