The essays in this collection make an important and timely contribution to Dickinson scholarship, documenting but also explaining the nuances of Dickinson's appreciation, appropriation and influence outside the United States. This fascinating book expands our understanding of Dickinson's twentieth-century reception, showing how scholars, readers, writers, and translators from Europe, Japan, South America, Israel, Australia and Canada confirm critical and theoretical trends in Dickinson scholarship, but also offer different approaches to her work, new insights and fresh perspectives.
- Dr Páraic Finnerty, Lecturer in English Literature, University of Portsmouth, UK.,
The contributors to this body of work explore the variety of impacts the New England poet and her work have had outside her native country and, in doing so, chart her influence, appropriation, and appreciation over more than a century, offering new insights and fresh perspectives.
The Year's Work in English Studies, Volume 90
This fascinating, timely study resource is an important contribution to the study of one of America's premier poets. Summing up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above.
- P.J. Ferlazzo, Choice, April 2010
Dickinson’s poetry ultimately insists on the intersection of different fields and territories of experience in mutual interrogation and investigation. This, I would argue, is the aesthetic that emerges—surprisingly and yet also inexorably—out of the cross-cultural experiences of Dickinson assembled in this collection: the lyric as a site of encounter among multiple and variant fields of experience.
- Shira Wolosky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Comparative Literature Studies, Vol. 49, No. 3