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Filtering by: Date issued sim 1990-06-28 Subject Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Ethics

Emily Dickinson : Sensibility Against Rational Religion

Creator:

Johnson, Wendy L. (Wendy Louise), 1951-

Abstract:

Emily Dickinson's religious poetry of the nineteenth century reveals a sensibility that resists traditional, orthodox Christianity. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate Dickinson's two-fold critique of rational religion. The poet does not merely oppose the existing pattern of interpretation with another; she questions the whole process of construing...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis