“Orpheus’ Sermon”: Making a Case for an Antiquer Dickinson
The article discusses Dickinson as seizing upon the classics and the Latin language as correctives to the long lasting impact of Calvinism upon her cultural environment. It seeks to offer Dickinson’s classical references as the expression of a gendered approach to her society’s most crucial issues,...
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2016-06-01
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| description | The article discusses Dickinson as seizing upon the classics and the Latin language as correctives to the long lasting impact of Calvinism upon her cultural environment. It seeks to offer Dickinson’s classical references as the expression of a gendered approach to her society’s most crucial issues, namely slavery, war, and the role of women in the public sphere. All of which questions find a resolution of sort in her appropriation of the Orphic voice in her later poems. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-92ad09cbaf5d430caa028760496b499e2025-01-30T10:42:56ZengAssociation Française d'Etudes AméricainesTransatlantica1765-27662016-06-01210.4000/transatlantica.7771“Orpheus’ Sermon”: Making a Case for an Antiquer DickinsonEric AthenotThe article discusses Dickinson as seizing upon the classics and the Latin language as correctives to the long lasting impact of Calvinism upon her cultural environment. It seeks to offer Dickinson’s classical references as the expression of a gendered approach to her society’s most crucial issues, namely slavery, war, and the role of women in the public sphere. All of which questions find a resolution of sort in her appropriation of the Orphic voice in her later poems.https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/7771genderAntique/anticclassicswarOrpheus |
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| title | “Orpheus’ Sermon”: Making a Case for an Antiquer Dickinson |
| title_full | “Orpheus’ Sermon”: Making a Case for an Antiquer Dickinson |
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| title_short | “Orpheus’ Sermon”: Making a Case for an Antiquer Dickinson |
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| topic | gender Antique/antic classics war Orpheus |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/7771 |
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