Writing in Time : Emily Dickinson's Master Hours /
For more than half a century, the story of Emily Dickinson's "Master" documents has been the largely biographical tale of three letters to an unidentified individual. Writing in Time seeks to tell a different story--the story of the documents themselves. Rather than presenting the &qu...
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[Amherst, MA] :
Amherst College Press,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: To the reader
- Historical introduction: The discovery, transmission, and printing histories of the "master letters"
- Early printings
- In the hour of the new bibliography
- Homage to Ralph W. Franklin
- Textual introduction: From letters to documents: Imagining a new edition of the "master" documents
- Re-drawing the boundaries
- Dating the "master" documents
- Editing in space and time
- Principles of transcription
- Manuscript witnesses & transcriptions in time
- Dear master / I am ill - (A 827)
- The writing line, ca. spring 1858-ca. summer 1860
- Mute - thy Coronation - (A 825)
- The writing line, ca. autumn 1860-ca. winter 1861
- Oh ' did I offend it - (A 829)
- The writing line, ca. spring 1861
- Master ./ If you saw a bullet (A 828)
- Reading hours
- Commentaries on the "master" documents
- The hour of flowers: A 827
- The hour of ermine: A 825
- The hour of lead: A 829
- The midnight hour: A 826
- The queen's hour: A 828.