Reviews
... a well-researched, carefully organized, and altogether engrossing book. Finnerty examines "Dickinson's Shakespeare" from a wide variety of perspectives - cultural, psychological, literary. It would be difficult to imagine a more completely realized study of the American poet and the English bard., "Emily Dickinson's Shakespeare is much more than a source study, though it is that in passing. It amounts to a cultural biography of Dickinson--a biography of her shifting yet enduring imagination. It includes a good deal of American cultural history as well. . . . This is a very fine book, written with scholarly skills that seem to belong to an earlier era and with a cultural, psychological, and historical savvy that very much belongs to the present moment. Emily Dickinson's Shakespeare is beautifully researched, absorbing in its critical narrative, and a joy to read."--Emily Dickinson Journal"Pariac Finnerty amply demonstrates that Emily Dickinson, along with her entire cultural milieu, was fully saturated with Shakespeare. . . . Finnerty has an uncommonly evenhanded way of showing how Dickinson both participated in standard conventional practices and responded brilliantly and idiosyncratically to Shakespeare's."--New England Quarterly"Finnerty's well-researched and accessible volume should interest both scholars and general readers."--Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin". . . a well-researched, carefully organized, and altogether engrossing book. Finnerty examines "Dickinson's Shakespeare" from a wide variety of perspectives - cultural, psychological, literary. It would be difficult to imagine a more completely realized study of the American poet and the English bard."--Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin, "Emily Dickinson's Shakespeare is much more than a source study, though it is that in passing. It amounts to a cultural biography of Dickinson--a biography of her shifting yet enduring imagination. It includes a good deal of American cultural history as well. . . . This is a very fine book, written with scholarly skills that seem to belong to an earlier era and with a cultural, psychological, and historical savvy that very much belongs to the present moment. Emily Dickinson's Shakespeare is beautifully researched, absorbing in its critical narrative, and a joy to read."--Emily Dickinson Journal "Pariac Finnerty amply demonstrates that Emily Dickinson, along with her entire cultural milieu, was fully saturated with Shakespeare. . . . Finnerty has an uncommonly evenhanded way of showing how Dickinson both participated in standard conventional practices and responded brilliantly and idiosyncratically to Shakespeare's."--New England Quarterly "Finnerty's well-researched and accessible volume should interest both scholars and general readers."--Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin ". . . a well-researched, carefully organized, and altogether engrossing book. Finnerty examines "Dickinson's Shakespeare" from a wide variety of perspectives - cultural, psychological, literary. It would be difficult to imagine a more completely realized study of the American poet and the English bard."--Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin, Emily Dickinson's Shakespeare is much more than a source study, though it is that in passing. It amounts to a cultural biography of Dickinson -- a biography of her shifting yet enduring imagination. It includes a good deal of American cultural history as well.... This is a very fine book, written with scholarly skills that seem to belong to an earlier era and with a cultural, psychological, and historical savvy that very much belongs to the present moment. Emily Dickinson's Shakespeare is beautifully researched, absorbing in its critical narrative, and a joy to read., " Emily Dickinson's Shakespeare is much more than a source study, though it is that in passing. It amounts to a cultural biography of Dickinson--a biography of her shifting yet enduring imagination. It includes a good deal of American cultural history as well. . . . This is a very fine book, written with scholarly skills that seem to belong to an earlier era and with a cultural, psychological, and historical savvy that very much belongs to the present moment. Emily Dickinson's Shakespeare is beautifully researched, absorbing in its critical narrative, and a joy to read."-- Emily Dickinson Journal "Pariac Finnerty amply demonstrates that Emily Dickinson, along with her entire cultural milieu, was fully saturated with Shakespeare. . . . Finnerty has an uncommonly evenhanded way of showing how Dickinson both participated in standard conventional practices and responded brilliantly and idiosyncratically to Shakespeare's."-- New England Quarterly "Finnerty's well-researched and accessible volume should interest both scholars and general readers."-- Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin ". . . a well-researched, carefully organized, and altogether engrossing book. Finnerty examines "Dickinson's Shakespeare" from a wide variety of perspectives - cultural, psychological, literary. It would be difficult to imagine a more completely realized study of the American poet and the English bard."-- Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin, Pariac Finnerty amply demonstrates that Emily Dickinson, along with her entire cultural milieu, was fully saturated with Shakespeare.... Finnerty has an uncommonly evenhanded way of showing how Dickinson both participated in standard conventional practices and responded brilliantly and idiosyncratically to Shakespeare's.