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Abstract: 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 "Master" documents as quarantined from Dickinson's larger scene of textual production, Marta Werner's innovative new edition proposes reading them next to Dickinson's other major textual experiment in the years between ca. 1858-1861: the Fascicles. In both, Dickinson can be seen testing the limits of address and genre in order to escape bibliographical determination and the very coordinates of "mastery" itself. A major event in Dickinson scholarship, Writing in Time: Emily Dickinson's Master Hours proposes new constellations of Dickinson's work as well as exciting new methodologies for textual scholarship as an act of "intimate editorial investigation."

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.

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Author/Creator:

Werner, Marta L., 1964- , author

Contributors:

Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan) , publisher, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Writing in time: Emily Dickinson's master hours [by Werner, M.L.]

Related Series:

Book collections on Project MUSE

Subjects:

Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 — Manuscripts

Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 — Manuscripts — Facsimiles

Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886

Manuscripts

Genres:

Facsimiles

Manuscripts

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 122-125).
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Description based on information from the publisher.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (125 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles

Call Numbers:

PS1541.Z5 W476 2021eb

ISBNs:

9781943208197 (open access)
1943208190 (open access)
9781943208180 (paperback book) [Invalid]
1943208182
9781943208180

Other Standard Numbers:

Digital Object Identifier: 10.3998/mpub.12023683

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2020946280

OCLC Numbers:

1261764846