ENGL 2080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Emily Dickinson, Print Culture, Agoraphobia
7 Apr 2015
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Engl 2080: emily dickenson and melville living and writing around the same time, melville = commercial author, publishes in magazines. Didn"t publish any of her poems in her lifetime, states that author. Yet they don"t appear to be engaged with the world around her. publishing/to print poems in the time they were written and turns them into a commodity. Her poems at all time anti-capitalist at the formal level of her work. Her work is as politically engaged with politics as melville. Social authorship: the author controls who sees their work. People being writing differently because they know it will be publicly read (the dedication/ subscribers in o) William blake refused to print this way. He understood that as you shift from written text to printed text is a form of alienation. It is no longer yours, but capitalist property. The materiality of the text if how you need to approach d"s work.
