International Reception of Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson's poetry is known and read worldwide but to date there have been no studies of her reception and influence outside America. This collection of essays brings together international research on her reception abroad including translations, circulation and the responses of private and professional readers to her poetry in different countries. The contributors address key translations of individual poems and lyric sequences; Dickinson's influence on other writers, poets and culture more broadly; biographical constructions of Dickinson as a poet; the political cultural and linguistic contexts of translations; and adaptations into other media. It will appeal to all those interested in the international reception of Dickinson and nineteenth-century American literature more widely.

"Dickinson's poetry ultimately insists on the intersection of different fields and territories of experience in mutual interrogation and investigation. This, I would argue, is the aesthetic that emerges--surprisingly and yet also inexorably--out of the cross-cultural experiences of Dickinson assembled in this collection: the lyric as a site of encounter among multiple and variant fields of experience." --Shira Wolosky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Domhnall Mitchell is Professor of 19th century American Literature in the Department of Modern Languages at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. Maria Stuart is College Lecturer in American Literature in the School of English and Drama at University College Dublin, Ireland.