The Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinson (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

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• At a time of massive social transformation, when a new industrial elite of money and business was eroding the traditional power, rank, and privilege of the old landed gentry, and labor was engaging in increasingly violent confrontations with capital, the figure of Emily Dickinson and her work were presented as a reaffirmation of the cultural power of mind and genius against the debased imperatives of both the capital marketplace and the democratic masses. (查看原文)

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• Deployed as a weapon against the political, ideological, and popular approaches to literature associated with the Left, the masses, and the thirties, in the criticism of Tate, Blackmur, Yvor Winters, and others, Dickinson's poems became both the exampla and the occasion for modernist and New Critical definitions of the literary-grounded in distinctions between poetry and history, aesthetics and politics, high art and mass culture, form and feeling-that came to dominate academic criticism and literary studies in the United States during the Cold War period. (查看原文)

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