Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-344) and index.
Contents
Train, the father, his daughter, and her poem : "I like to see it lap the miles" -- "Homeless at home": the politics and poetics of domestic space -- Housing possibilities : Dickinson and the institution of culture -- "Little taste, time, and means": Dickinson and flowers -- Letters from home : Dickinson and publication -- Gathering buds : Dickinson's autograph anthologies -- Revising the script : Dickinson's manuscripts -- Cordoning off dissent : Dickinson's monologic voices -- Passages of meaning : "Safe in their alabaster chambers".