The Master Letters of Emily Dickinson - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Master Letters of Emily Dickinson write by Emily Dickinson. This book was released on 1986. The Master Letters of Emily Dickinson available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume analysis the three letters written by Emily Dickinson, addressed to a man she called Master. They are presented in chronological order, including transcriptions that show stages in the composition of each letter, and placed in historical perspective.
The Master Letters
The Master Letters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Master Letters write by Lucie Brock-Broido. This book was released on 2010-02-24. The Master Letters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The title of this richly textured book derives from two of the three mysterious letters left by Emily Dickinson--the ones addressed to "Dear Master." Lucie Brock-Boido has imagined a series of letters echoing devices found in Dickinson's own work. "We feel we are in the presence of something entirely new, " says Bonnie Costello in The Boston Review. "Not even Brock-Broido's wonderful first book, A Hunger, prepares us for this bold encounter."
Dear Master
Dear Master - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dear Master write by Randall M. Miller. This book was released on 1990-10-01. Dear Master available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Dear Master" is a rare firsthand look at the values, self-perception, and private life of the black American slave. The fullest known record left by an American slave family, this collection of more than two hundred letters--including seven discovered since the book's original appearance--reveals the relationship of two generations of the Skipwith family with the Virginia planter John Hartwell Cocke. The letters, dating from 1834 to 1865, fall into two groups. The first were written by Peyton Skipwith and his children from Liberia, where they settled after being freed in 1833 by Cocke, a devout Christian and enlightened slaveholder. The letters, which tell of harsh frontier life, reveal the American values the Skipwiths took with them to Africa, and express their faith in Liberia's future and pride in their accomplishments. The second group of letters, written by George Skipwith and his daughter Lucy, originate from Cocke's Alabama plantation, an experimental work community to which Cocke sent his most talented, responsible slaves to prepare them for the moral and educational challenges of emancipation. George, a "privileged bondsman," was a slave driver. His letters about the management of the plantation include reports on the slaves' conduct and any disciplinary actions he took. Readers can sense George's pride in his work and also his ambivalence toward his role as leader in the slave hierarchy. Lucy, Cocke's chief domestic slave, was the plantation nurse and teacher. Her letters, filled with details about spiritual, familial, and health matters, also display her skill at exploiting her master's trust and her uncommon boldness, for she spoke against whites to her master when she felt they hampered his slaves' education. "Dear Master" affirms that these slaves and former slaves were not simply victims; they were actors in a complex human drama. The letters imply trust and affection between master and slave, but there were other motives as well for the letter-writing. The Liberian Skipwiths needed American-made supplies; moreover, the whole family may have viewed their relationship with Cocke as a chance to help free other slaves. In his new preface, Miller reevaluates his book in light of changes in the historiography of American slavery over the past decade.
Open Me Carefully
Open Me Carefully - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Open Me Carefully write by Emily Dickinson. This book was released on 1998-10-01. Open Me Carefully available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The 19th–century American poet’s uncensored and breathtaking letters, poems, and letter-poems to her sister-in-law and childhood friend. For the first time, selections from Emily Dickinson’s thirty-six year correspondence with her childhood friend, neighbor, and sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson, are compiled in a single volume. Open Me Carefully invites a dramatic new understanding of Emily Dickinson’s life and work, overcoming a century of censorship and misinterpretation. For the millions of readers who love Emily Dickinson’s poetry, Open Me Carefully brings new light to the meaning of the poet’s life and work. Gone is Emily as lonely spinster; here is Dickinson in her own words, passionate and fully alive. Praise for Open Me Carefully “With spare commentary, Smith . . . and Hart . . . let these letters speak for themselves. Most important, unlike previous editors who altered line breaks to fit their sense of what is poetry or prose, Hart and Smith offer faithful reproductions of the letters’ genre-defying form as the words unravel spectacularly down the original page.” —Renee Tursi, The New York Times Book Review
Writing in Time
Writing in Time - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Writing in Time write by Marta L. Werner. This book was released on 2021. Writing in Time available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
