Really Indigenous Productions: Emily Dickinson, Josiah Holland, and Nineteenth‐Century Popular Verse

57 | 2023

“…First, the main local features of Dickinson's writing engage with the peculiarities of nineteenth-century American context. Dickinson's response to her own literary culture tackles both textual and extratextual issues, which range from Dickinson's own way to produce a polyphonic poetic language to her fruition of periodicals and popular press (Ladin 2004;Loeffelholz 2008). As a prolific writer and fond reader, Dickinson may be viewed as a genuine founder of nineteenth-century literary culture: while constituting the core of household life, both reading and writing assure a cohesive social function and help strengthen the cardinal cultural role assigned to literature (Buckingham 1996…”