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Autumn 1985 • Vol. VII No. 4 • Book Reviews |

Searching for the Capital of the Mind

By David Porter

Emily Dickinson and the Problem of Others by Christopher E. G. Benfey. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1984. 128 pages. $15.00.

Dickinson: The Anxiety of Gender by Vivian R. Pollak. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984. 258 pages. $19.50.

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