Relevant Information

Mary Loeffelholz

Department of English
406 Holmes Hall
Northeastern University
Boston, MA 02115

Tel. (617) 373-3687
email: m.loeffelholz@neu.edu

Relevant publications:
[ Books ] [ Articles and Chapters in Books ] [ Review Essays ]

* Books:

Dickinson and the Boundaries of Feminist Theory, University of Illinois Press, 1991

Experimental Lives: Women and Literature, 1900-1945, Twayne/MacMillan, 1992

* Articles and chapters in books:

"The Religion of Art in the City at War: Boston's Public Poetry and the Great Organ, circa 1863," American Literary History 13, no. 2 (Summer 2001): 212-241.

"Essential, Portable, Mythical Margaret Fuller," in Challenging Boundaries: Gender and Periodization, ed. Margaret Dickie and Joyce Warren (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000): 159-84.

"What is a Fascicle? Reading Dickinson's Manuscript Books," The Harvard Library Bulletin 10 (December 1999): 23-42.

"Corollas of Autumn: Reading Franklin's Dickinson," in The Emily Dickinson Journal 8, no. 2 (Fall 1999): 55-71.

"Prospects for the Study of Emily Dickinson," in Resources for American Literary Studies 25, no. 1(Fall 1999): 1-25.

"Poetry, Slavery, Personification: Maria Lowell's 'Africa,'" in Studies in Romanticism 38, no. 2 (Summer 1999): 171-202.

"'Question of Monuments": Emerson, Dickinson, and American Renaissance Portraiture," in Modern Language Quarterly 59, no. 4 (December 1998): 445-69.

"Who Killed Lucretia Davidson? or, Poetry in the Domestic-Tutelary Complex," The Yale Journal of Criticism 10, no. 2 (1997): 271-293.

"Crossing the Atlantic with Victoria: American Receptions, 1837-1901," in Queen Victoria and the Making of Victorian Cultures, ed. Margaret Homans and Adrienne Munich (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997): 33-56.

"Etruscan Invitations: The Anxiety of the Aesthetic in Feminist Criticism of Dickinson," The Emily Dickinson Journal 5, no. 1 (Spring 1996): 1-26.

"'In Place of Strength': Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Psyche Translations," Studies in Browning and His Circle, Vol. 19 (1991): 66-75.

"Posing the Woman Citizen: The Contradictions of Stanton's Feminism," Genders 7 (Spring 1990): 87-98. To be reprinted in Twentieth Century Literary Criticism (Gale Research, 1998).

"Miranda in the New World: Charlotte Barnes' The Forest Princess and The Tempest," in Women's Re-Visions of Shakespeare, ed. Marianne Novy (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1990), 58-75.

"Dickinson Identified: Newer Criticism and Feminist Classrooms," in Approaches to Teaching Dickinson's Poetry, ed. Robin Riley Fast and Christine Mack Gordon (New York: MLA, 1989), 170-77.

Introduction to Forum on Women's Studies and Nineteenth Century Studies, Nineteenth-Century Contexts 13, no. 1 (Spring 1989): 7-11.

* Review essays:

"The Incidental Dickinson," in The New England Quarterly 72, no. 3 (September 1999): 456-72 (on R. W. Franklin, ed., The Poems of Emily Dickinson; Ellen Louise Hart and Martha Nell Smith, eds., Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson, and Gudrun Grabher, Roland Hagenbüchle, and Cristanne Miller, eds., The Emily Dickinson Handbook).

"Women's Studies on Trial," in College English 58, no. 1 (1996): 85-92 (on Sara Munson Deats and Lagretta Tallent Lenker, eds., Gender and Academe: Feminist Pedagogy and Politics, and Daphne Patai and Noretta Koertge, Professing Feminism: Cautionary Tales from the Strange World of Women's Studies).