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Lyric Nationalism: Whitman, American Studies, and the New Criticism

The prolific novelist, poet, and critic Joyce Carol Oates recently edited a volume of Emily Dickinson’s selected poems for Ecco Press. Dickinson has always occupied a vexed relationship to the American canon and the American Renaissance. Her work is not often read as explicitly patriotic as that of her contemporary Walt Whitman with his attempts to make himself commensurate with the American people. Nevertheless, Oates presents Dickinson’s work in a nationalistic vein, linking her with Whitman: