Emily Dickinson, A User?s Guide 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

Written by a world-renowned Emily Dickinson scholar and American literary critic

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

The User?s Guide is a new kind of book for a new era of reading

Is the only book that is an introduction to the poet, her work, and her receptions among readers

Is the only book that presents new biography and textual discoveries that have just come to light in 2011

Interprets Dickinson through the dynamic interchange between the reader?s sense of her life and her work

Draws on prominent critical views from the past century, including sentimental, modernist, new critical, psychological, feminist, queer, and postmodernist readings