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This chapter discusses Dickinson’s relationship to the proliferation of print in nineteenth-century America. Dickinson’s poetry and correspondence with Thomas Wentworth Higginson indicate her careful navigation of her era’s rapidly expanding print culture. More specifically, her family’s cutting—and not cutting—of pages in the Atlantic Monthly offer unique evidence of Dickinson’s reading practices and her household’s engagement with Harriet Beecher Stowe’s views of gender and Abraham Lincoln’s stance on slavery. Dickinson’s reading—and not reading—help us understand her writing and mind, the power and limits of source study, and the challenges and opportunities that literature faces in our long information revolution. |
