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Emily Dickinson ‘The Myth of Amherst’ 1830-1886

Emily Dickinson ‘The Myth of Amherst’ 1830-1886. Unconventional Challenging Puzzling An anachronism of her time Disturbed Reclusive Revolutionary Morbid Spinster Obsessed By Death Half mad Misunderstood. Cambridge Introduction to Emily Dickinson.

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Emily Dickinson ‘The Myth of Amherst’ 1830-1886

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  1. Emily Dickinson ‘The Myth of Amherst’ 1830-1886

  2. Unconventional • Challenging • Puzzling • An anachronism of her time • Disturbed • Reclusive • Revolutionary • Morbid Spinster • Obsessed By Death • Half mad • Misunderstood

  3. Cambridge Introduction to Emily Dickinson

  4. Dickinson dared to live according to her own rules rather than by conventional social codes and carved a space for herself in a period that allowed women very little room. Often misunderstood as a victim of Victorian culture, Dickinson deliberately worked within cultural constraints, often assuming an ironic and playful stance toward conventional values while finding American individualism, self, and voice through her poetry and letters Cambridge Introduction to Emily Dickinson.

  5. What did she write about? • American Civil War/Futility of War • Religion-Puritanism • Nature • Love/Sex Marriage • Society and values • Death • Her own troubling psychological experiences

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