Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Sources.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction (Martha Nell Smith and Mary Loeffelholz).

Part I: Biography – the Myth of “the Myth”.

1 Architecture of the Unseen (Aife Murray).

2 Fracturing a Master Narrative, Reconstructing “Sister Sue” (Ingrid Satelmajer).

3 Public, Private Spheres: What Reading Emily Dickinson’s Mail Taught me about Civil Wars (Martha Nell Smith).

4 “Pretty much all real life”: The Material World of the Dickinson Family (Jane Wald).

Part II: The Civil War – Historical and Political Contexts.

5 “Drums off the Phantom Battlements”: Dickinson’s War Poems in Discursive Context (Faith Barrett).

6 The Eagle’s Eye: Dickinson’s View of Battle (Renée Bergland).

7 “How News Must Feel When Traveling”: Dickinson and Civil War Media (Eliza Richards).

Part III: Cultural Contexts – Literature, Philosophy, Theology, Science.

8 Really Indigenous Productions: Emily Dickinson, Josiah Holland, and Nineteenth-Century Popular Verse (Mary Loeffelholz).

9 Thinking Dickinson Thinking Poetry (Virginia Jackson).

10 Dickinson and the Exception (Max Cavitch).

11 Dickinson’s Uses of Spiritualism: The “Nature” of Democratic Belief (Paul Crumbley).

12 “Forever – is Composed of Nows –”: Emily Dickinson’s Conception of Time (Gudrun M. Grabher).

13 God’s Place in Dickinson’s Ecology (Nancy Mayer).

Part IV: Textual Conditions: Manuscripts, Printings, Digital Surrogates.

14 Auntie Gus Felled It New (Tim Morris).

15 Reading Dickinson in Her Context: The Fascicles (Eleanor Elson Heginbotham).

16 The Poetics of Interruption: Dickinson, Death, and the Fascicles (Alexandra Socarides).

17 Climates of the Creative Process: Dickinson’s Epistolary Journal (Connie Ann Kirk).

18 Hearing the Visual Lines: How Manuscript Study Can Contribute to an Understanding of Dickinson’s Prosody (Ellen Louise Hart, with Sandra Chung).

19 “The Thews of Hymn”: Dickinson’s Metrical Grammar (Michael L. Manson).

20 Dickinson’s Structured Rhythms 391

Cristanne Miller

21 A Digital Regiving: Editing the Sweetest Messages

in the Dickinson Electronic Archives 415

Tanya Clement

22 Editing Dickinson in an Electronic Environment 437

Lara Vetter

Part V: Poetry & Media – Dickinson’s Legacies.

23 “Dare you see a soul at the White Heat?”: Thoughts on a “Little

Home-keeping Person” (Sandra M. Gilbert).

24 Re-Playing the Bible: My Emily Dickinson (Alicia Ostriker).

25 “For Flash and Click and Suddenness–”: Emily Dickinson and the Photography-Effect (Marta L. Werner).

26 "Zero to the Bone": Thelonious Monk, Emily Dickinson, and the Rhythms of Modernism (Joshua Weiner).

Index of First Lines.

Index of Letters of Emily Dickinson.

Index.