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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.1 | The History Cooperative

Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief. By Roger Lundin. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998. xiv, 305 pp. Cloth, $24.00, isbn 0-8028-3857-X. Paper, $16.00, isbn 0-8028-0157-9.)

Roger Lundin's Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief is part of the Eerdmans Library of Religious Biography series. The series presents compact studies of some of the major thinkers of the last several centuries—Thomas Jefferson, Roger Williams, William Gladstone—examining the ways in which questions of faith and theology affected their intellectual lives. Certainly Dickinson merits a religious biography. By her own testimony, immortality was her great "flood subject," and Lundin has done a commendable job in demonstrating how the poet's wrestling match with God occupied the greater part of her life. 1

By placing Dickinson firmly within her theological, political, and intellectual context, Lundin rightly asserts that the poet was indeed part of her times. Attacking the tenacious myth that Dickinson knew little of the world outside her second-story window and used her cultural milieu even less, Lundin offers a convincing argument that the poet brilliantly transformed the times in which she lived into poetry. . . .

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