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In this illuminating, deeply researched book, W. Clark Gilpin probes the multifaceted religious contexts--historical, biographical, cultural, and theological--of Emily Dickinson's poetry. Gilpin provides the richest account yet of Dickinson and religion. --David S. Reynolds, author of Beneath the American Renaissance and Mightier than the Sword: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America

In this illuminating, deeply researched book, W. Clark Gilpin probes the multifaceted religious contexts--historical, biographical, cultural, and theological--of Emily Dickinson's poetry. Gilpin provides the richest account yet of Dickinson and religion. --David S. Reynolds, author of Beneath the American Renaissance and Mightier than the Sword: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America

Thorough and revealing, replete with poem exempla and references to the principal spokespersons of that era, Gilpin's study contributes significantly to illuminating both Dickinson's poetry and the culture that inspired it. R. R. Jolly, Choice

Thorough and revealing, replete with poem exempla and references to the principal spokespersons of that era, Gilpin's study contributes significantly to illuminating both Dickinson's poetry and the culture that inspired it. </p>--R. R. Jolly, <em>Choice</em></p>

Thorough and revealing, replete with poem exempla and references to the principal spokespersons of that era, Gilpin's study contributes significantly to illuminating both Dickinson's poetry and the culture that inspired it. --R. R. Jolly, Choice

<em>Religion Around Emily Dickinson</em> is a finely textured discussion of Dickinson that brings into critical view both earlier trends and the most current modes of scholarship. Religion is extended beyond theological, intellectual history to religious practices, expressions, historicities, and enactments, embedding Dickinson in a wide cultural matrix. In doing this, the book traces changes in the meanings of America and in fundamental paradigms for representing American life--from the national to the transatlantic, from one narrative (and narratives about oneness) to multiple senses of American identities. Enjoyably written, this book brings together contemporary issues in American culture and Dickinson studies in ways that alter our sense of Dickinson's reading of her American world and hence our reading of her. </p>--Shira Wolosky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem</p>

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W. Clark Gilpin is Margaret E. Burton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity and Theology in the University of Chicago Divinity School.

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