TY - JOUR
AU - Fincham, Gail
AB - REVIEWS 157 lexicographical impulses and forms’ that Dickinson shared with her culture—aphorisms, truisms, proverbs, axioms, maxims, epigrams, adages, sayings, etc. (p. 124). Chapter 5 ‘Through the Dark Sod: Trying to Read with Emily Dickinson’ presents brilliant analyses of literal ‘scenes of reading’ in The Mill on the Floss, Jane Eyre and Aurora Leigh, arguing that the concerns of these novels suggest that Dickinson’s poems were ‘not only self- interpretations but also contributions to wider cultural conversations’ (p. 158). In the concluding chapter ‘With Bolder Playmates Straying: Dickinson Thinking of Death’, Deppman examines how Dickinson used lyric poetry to pursue difficult projects of thought through an extraordinary analysis of Fr1588 ‘Of Death I try to think like this’. Deppman’s view of Dickinson’s poems as philosophical conversation is a great model for her poetry and Deppman’s philosophical conversations with Dickinson’s poems provide the best model we have of precisely how the poems work and how we might best think about the genre of her poems. His book gives life to Lavinia Dickinson’s characterisation of her sister: ‘She had to think and she was the only one of us who had that to do.’ JOAN KIRKBY Macquarie University doi:10.1093/res/hgp103 Advance Access published 
TI - katherine isobel baxter and richard j. hand (eds). Joseph Conrad and the Performing Arts.
JO - The Review of English Studies
DO - 10.1093/res/hgp083
DA - 2010-02-21
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/katherine-isobel-baxter-and-richard-j-hand-eds-joseph-conrad-and-the-5B0FrHSwWZ
SP - 157
EP - 159
VL - 61
IS - 248
DP - DeepDyve
ER -