The marriage of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson : an inquiry into spousal poetics
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Though Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman spent their lives unwed, their afterlives have never been free of marital vows. Take Whitman, who—having ducked an early proposal from Anne Gilchrist, a widowed, English admirer—finds himself the imaginary suitor to Ronald Johnson and Hart Crane. Dickinson, however, on account of her perceived seclusion, prompts us not to thoughts of consummation, but of extended courtship. In the following study I investigate how marriage and weddings permeate the core poetry in question, before exploring the marital permutations in the afterlives of Walt and Emily. Marriage serves as both subject matter and metaphor, leading me to such texts as Edward Weston's photographs for a 1941 Leaves of Grass (made with Charis Wilson, his new, and soon to be ex-, wife); the poetry of same-sex weddings; Jerome Charyn's daring novel The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson (2010); Joyce Carol Oates's short story "EDickinsonRepliLuxe" (2008); and Paul Di Filippo's peculiar steampunk novella, "Walt and Emily" (1995), where the titular characters fall in love.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2015 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Mong, Derek Carter |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of English. |
| Primary advisor | Greene, Roland, 1957- |
| Thesis advisor | Greene, Roland, 1957- |
| Thesis advisor | Fields, Kenneth |
| Thesis advisor | Jones, Gavin |
| Advisor | Fields, Kenneth |
| Advisor | Jones, Gavin |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Derek Carter Mong. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of English. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2015. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2015 by Derek Carter Mong
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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