The Undiscovered Continent

While making a case for a feminist reading of Dickinson's poetry throughout this study, Juhasz focuses mainly on a critical analysis of that large group of poems that describe the mental life of Emily Dickinson, or what the poet herself termed the "Undiscovered Continent." Juhasz argues that Dickinson set out to negotiate with extremes of mental experience: memory, pain, despair (the "tangible" experiences) and eternity (the "conceptual" one). She believes that Dickinson chose solitude as a strategy both for living and writing. ISBN 0-253-36164-8 : $17.50.