Notes on contributors
      Acknowledgments
      Chronology
      Abbreviations for frequently cited works
      Introduction
      BIOGRAPHY AND PUBLICATION HISTORY
      1 the emily dickinson wars
      BETSY ERKKILA
      2 Emily Dickinson and the American South
      CHRISTOPHER BENFEY
      3 Susan and Emily dickinson:their lives,in letters
      MARTHA NELL SMITH
      POETIC STRATEGIES AND THEMES
      4 Emily Dickinson and poetic strategy
      WENDY BARKER
      5 Emily Dickinson’’s existential dramsa
      FRED D.WHITE
      6 Performances of gender in Dickinson’’s poetry
      SUZANNE JUHASZ AND CRISTANNE MILLER
      7 Emily Dickinson:being in the body
      SHIRA WOLOSKY
      8 Emily Dickinson and the Gothic in Fascicle 16
      DANEEN WARDROP
      CUTURAL CONTEXTS
      9 Emily Dickinson and popular cuture
      DAVID S.REYNOLDS
      10 Emily Dickinson and class
      DOMHNALL MITCHELL
      11 Emily Dickinson and her American women poet peers
      PAULA BERNAT BENNETT
      Select bibliography
      Index