Editorial Introduction: Testing our Horizons

Abstract

[ ]because Dickinson is an American author, because the United States is historically a center for Dickinson scholarship, and because English is a dominant language globally, excellent scholarship in other languages does not gain the recognition or carry the impact and influence that it merits (With the exception of Rocio Saucedo Dimas' work, these dissertations were written in English ) The first-ever digital Annual Meeting of the Emily Dickinson International Society in August 2020 was exceptionally diverse in terms of international participation;it is our hope that this special issue will continue to broaden the available range of scholarly perspectives on Dickinson in English and to promote opportunities for discussion and collaboration across national and linguistic boundaries by making the work of scholars publishing in other languages available to a wider readership through translation into English Chevrier-Bosseau argues that Dickinson's conception of the lyric self and of the physical space of the poem is essentially dramatic;her dramatization of voice, meaning, address, trope, and the poems themselves should be considered in the light of a Shakespeare-inspired conception of theatricality that relies on the power of language more than on stage devices such as props, costumes, or sets Jasmin Herrmann's 2016 Ph D dissertation, defended at the University of Cologne, Germany, offers a reading of Dickinson's work from a Deleuzian perspective, confronting the critical inclination to associate Dickinson's poetry with transcendentalism by setting it in the light of philosophical immanence