<i>Emily Dickinson, A User’s Guide</i> presents a comprehensive introduction to the life and works of Emily Dickinson, Offers a richly appreciative biographical and critical introduction to America’s most widely admired woman poet<ul type="disc"><li>Written by a world-renowned Emily Dickinson scholar and American literary critic<li>Represents the only book that reads Dickinson through her manuscripts, the print editions of her work, and the major digital Dickinson editions published since 1994<li>The <i>User’s Guide</i> is a new kind of book for a new era of reading<li>Is the only book that is an introduction to the poet, her work, and her receptions among readers<li>Is the only book that presents new biography and textual discoveries that have just come to light in 2011<li> Interprets Dickinson through the dynamic interchange between the reader’s sense of her life and her work<li>Draws on prominent critical views from the past century, including sentimental, modernist, new critical, psychological, feminist, queer, and postmodernist readings</ul><p>