The New Emily Dickinson Studies

This collection presents new approaches to Emily Dickinson''s oeuvre. Informed by twenty-first-century critical developments the Dickinson that emerges here is embedded in and susceptible to a very physical world and caught in unceasing interactions and circulation that she does not control. The volume''s essays offer fresh readings of Dickinson''s poetry through such new critical lenses as historical poetics ecocriticism animal studies sound studies new materialism posthumanism object-oriented feminism disability studies queer theory race studies race and contemporary poetics digital humanities and globalism. These essays address what it means to read Dickinson in braille online graffitied and internationally alongside the work of poets of color. Taken together this book widens our understanding of Dickinson''s readerships of what the poems can mean and for whom.