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Author:	Alfred Habegger	Publisher:	Modern Library
Edition Description:	Reprint	ISBN-10:	0812966015
Subject:	Biography & Autobiography	ISBN-13:	9780812966015
Topic:	--	Format:	Paperback
Language:	English	Publication Year:	2002
Condition:	Good	Special Attributes:	--

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Synopsis
Eschewing the misconception that Dickinson (1830-1886) was not engaged in a changing dynamic because of her reclusiveness, this study of her life and work discusses how her decision to cloister herself allowed her greater expression than her age ordinarily permitted. A thorough study of the New England religious revival, which she resisted in her youth, sheds light on her tremendous strength of character.
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Height:	8.0 in.
Width:	5.3 in.
Thickness:	1.5 in.
Weight:	22.4 oz.

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Emily Dickinson, probably the most loved and certainly the greatest of American poets, continues to be seen as the most elusive. One reason she has become a timeless icon of mystery for many readers is that her developmental phases have not been clarified. In this exhaustively researched biography, Alfred Habegger presents the first thorough account of Dickinson’s growth–a richly contextualized story of genius in the process of formation and then in the act of overwhelming production. Building on the work of former and contemporary scholars, My Wars Are Laid Away in Books brings to light a wide range of new material from legal archives, congregational records, contemporary women's writing, and previously unpublished fragments of Dickinson’s own letters. Habegger discovers the best available answers to the pressing questions about the poet: Was she lesbian? Who was the person she evidently loved? Why did she refuse to publish and why was this refusal so integral an aspect of her work? Habegger also illuminates many of the essential connection sin Dickinson’s story: between the decay of doctrinal Protestantism and the emergence of her riddling lyric vision; between her father’s political isolation after the Whig Party’s collapse and her private poetic vocation; between her frustrated quest for human intimacy and the tuning of her uniquely seductive voice. The definitive treatment of Dickinson’s life and times, and of her poetic development, My Wars Are Laid Away in Books shows how she could be both a woman of her era and a timeless creator. Although many aspects of her life and work will always elude scrutiny, her living, changing profile at least comes into focus in this meticulous and magisterial biography. From the Hardcover edition.
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"This is as good as literary biography gets." Publishers Weekly (07/23/2001) "Toward the end of the book, Habegger lingers over a lesser-known poem, 'Further in Summer Than the Birds,' to give a remarkable reading of Dickinson's evolution toward a calmness that in her final years kept her in willing retreat from people but not from life...[A]n impressively good new biography...." New York Times Book Review - Renee Tursi (10/21/2001) "Alfred Habegger's new life of Emily Dickinson is an absorbing, persuasive, profoundly satisfying demonstration of what Janet Malcolm once said was the whole point of a biography: to show how a particular person did his or her particular work...The second half of this book is very powerful, very convincing as it focuses not on Dickinson the person or on Dickinson's achieved poems but on Dickinson writing...There is a steely grandeur in her writing 'The Soul selects her own Society -- / Then shuts the door . . . ' Alfred Habegger has come closer than anyone else to getting past the closed door." Washington Post Book World - Robert D. Richardson Jr. (11/11/2001) "A life of Emily Dickinson is by its nature going to be a life of the poet's interior movements and devotions. Habegger is especially good at sketching viable, and at times contradictory, views of Dickinson's inner states by bringing together a confluence of differing streams of evidence. Not only a letter she sent to this or that close friend, but also brief notes fired off to family and more distant friends, drafts of the poems, her physical whereabouts and communiques between second and third parties touching on the issue at hand. He allows her to shift, to inhabit higher and lower planes of existence simultaneously. She is swamped in domestic labour even as she's working out puzzles of private suffering and religious longing...It's Alfred Habegger's success and gift to us to have made the inner spiritual drama of North America's greatest poet a troubling, absorbing and ultimately enlivening story. It was not an easy task." Globe and Mail (Toronto) - Ken Babstock (11/17/2001) "MY WARS ARE LAID AWAY IN BOOKS is a big book about the author of small poems. But Habegger is never dull. He is absolutely convincing about the importance of his subject. He has brought together a couple of generations worth of scholarly work on the life, texts and time of Emily Dickinson, and he has applied it all in a generous rereading of her unforgettable poetry." Los Angeles Times Book Review - Keith Taylor (11/25/2001) "[Habegger ] has written a highly readable, unassuming work that overcomes many of the problems, editorial and biographical, that beset previous biographers and critics of Dickinson.....This biography recenters the massive lyric accomplishment of Emily Dickinson within an evolving biographical and historical framework, showing that her life and work were never static - as previous critics have often suggested. As a result, Habegger adds greatly to our understanding of the poet. I suspect his work will have a subtle - but lasting - impact on our view of this poet." Philadelphia Inquirer - Jay Parini (12/30/2001)

My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson (Modern Library Paperbacks)

Product Category : Books
ISBN : 0812966015
Title : My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson (Modern Library Paperbacks)
EAN : 9780812966015
Authors : Alfred Habegger
Binding : Paperback
Publisher : Modern Library
Publication Date : 2002-09-17
Pages : 800
List Price (MSRP) : 20.00
Height : 1.2000 inches
Width : 5.1000 inches
Length : 8.0000 inches
Weight : 1.3500 pounds
Keywords : American Literature, General AAS, Authors, Women, General, Criticism, Paperback, Printed Books
Condition : Good
Classification Notes : May have price sticker on front.

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