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9781584656746 |
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(AEA)C926FB26FB354112AB0733E41E5D04B0 |
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PS 1541.Z5 |
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.M961 2009 |
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Murray, Aife. |
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110625 |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Maid as muse : |
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how servants changed Emily Dickinson's life and language / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Aífe Murray. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Durham, New Hampshire, [UK] : |
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University of New Hampshire Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
c2009. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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xi, 299 p. : |
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ill., map |
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24 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-290) and index. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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Introduction: Walking backward to something you know is there -- Warm and wild and mighty -- The 1850 housework compromise -- Turning with a ferocity to a place she loved -- Of pictures, the discloser -- Emily Dickinson's Irish wake -- She kept them in my trunk -- There are things / We live among -- Afterword: The broadest words are so narrow. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
In Maid as Muse, Aife Murray explodes the myth of the isolated genius and presents an intimate, densely realized story of joined lives between Emily Dickinson and her domestic servants. Part scholarly study, part detective story, part personal journey, Murray's book uncovers a world previously unknown: an influential world of Irish immigrant servants and an ethnically rich one of Yankee, English-immigrant, Native American, and African American maids and laborers, seamstresses and stablemen. Murray reveals how Margaret Maher and the other servants influenced the cultural outlook, fashion, artistic subject, and even poetic style of Emily Dickinson. Irish immigrant Maher becomes the lens to a larger story about artistic reciprocities and culture-making that has meaning way beyond Dickinson. This below-stairs, bottom-up portrait of the artist and her family not only injects themes of class and ethnic difference into the story but also imparts subtle details and intimacies that make the study of Emily Dickinson urgent once again. In the kitchen pantry where she spent a good portion of each day, the outside world came to Dickinson. The "invisible" kitchen was headquarters for people mostly lost from the public record--and it was her interactions with them that changed and helped define who Emily Dickinson was as a person and a poet. |
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United States |
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Poets, American |
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United States |
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Women household employees |
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45640 |
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American Learning Resource |
