124
Views
0
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Research Article

‘The Bird / Who Sings the Same, Unheard, / As Unto Crowd —’: Dickinson, Birdsong, and the Business of Improvisation

Works cited

  • Clark, Hubert Lyman. The Birds of Amherst and Vicinity. Including Nearly the Whole of Hampshire County, Massachusetts. With an Introduction by Professor Charles H. Fernald, PH.D. Carpenter & Morehouse, 1906.
  • Dickinson, Emily. The Letters of Emily Dickinson. edited by Thomas Herbert Johnson and Theodora Van Wagenen Ward, Belknap P of Harvard UP, 1986.
  • ———. The Poems of Emily Dickinson. edited by R. W. Franklin, The Belknap P of Harvard UP, 1998.
  • Dowling, David Oakey. The Business of Literary Circles in Nineteenth-Century America. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
  • Erkkila, Betsy. “Emily Dickinson and Class.” American Literary History, vol. 4, no. 1, 1992, pp. 1–27. doi:10.1093/alh/4.1.1.
  • Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. Hints on Speech Making. Longmans, Green and Co., 1887. Reprinted 1903.
  • ———. The Rationale of Spiritualism: Being Two Extemporaneous Lectures Delivered at Dodsworth Hall, December 5, 1858. T.J. Ellinwood, 1859.
  • ———. “Letter to a Young Contributor,” Atlantic Monthly, vol. 7, no. 54, Apr. 1862, pp. 401–11.
  • ———. “The Life of Birds.” Atlantic Monthly, vol. 10, no. 59, Sep. 1862, pp. 368–76.
  • Howe, Susan. The Birth-Mark: Unsettling the Wilderness in American Literary History. Wesleyan UP, 1993.
  • “Jenny Lind at Exeter Hall.” The Illustrated London News, vol. 27, no. 775, 22 Dec. 1855, pp. 713–14.
  • Merriam, George S. Life and Times of Samuel Bowles. Century Co., 1855.
  • Meyer-Frazier, Petra. Bound Music, Unbound Women: The Search for an Identity in the Nineteenth Century. College Music Society, 2015.
  • Novak, David, and Matt Sakakeeny, editors. Keywords in Sound. Duke UP, 2015.
  • Pascoe, Judith. “‘The House Encore Me So’: Emily Dickinson and Jenny Lind.” Emily Dickinson Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, 1992, pp. 1–18. doi:10.1353/edj.0.0055.
  • Penny, Virginia. The Employments of Women: A Cyclopaedia of Woman’s Work. Walker, Wise & Co., 1863.
  • Rothenberg, David. Why Birds Sing: A Journey through the Mystery of Bird Song. Basic Books, 2005.
  • Schuman, Jo Miles, and Joanna Bailey Hodgman. “Introduction: Emily Dickinson, Intimate of Birds.” A Spicing of Birds: Poems by Emily Dickinson. edited by Jo Miles Schuman and Joanna Bailey Hodgman, xiii–xxiv. Wesleyan UP, 2010.
  • Slobin, Mark, et al. Emily’s Songbook: Music in 1850s Albany. A-R Editions, 2011.
  • Small, Judy Jo. Positive as Sound: Emily Dickinson’s Rhyme. U of Georgia P, 1990.
  • Smith, Martha Nell. Rowing in Eden: Rereading Emily Dickinson. U of Texas P, 1992.
  • Walker, Cheryl. The Nightingale’s Burden: Women Poets and American Culture before 1900. Indiana UP, 1982.
  • Ware, W. Porter, and Thaddeus C. Lockard Jr. The Lost Letters of Jenny Lind. Translated from the German and Edited with Commentaries. Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1966.
  • Warner, Susan. The Wide, Wide World. Feminist P at the City U of New York, 1987.
  • Webster, Noah. “Business.” An American Dictionary of the English Language. S. Converse, 1828. Reprinted in Facsimile by the Foundation for American Christian Education, 2002.
  • Werner, Marta. Emily Dickinson’s Open Folios: Scenes of Reading, Surfaces of Writing. U of Michigan P, 1995.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.