First-Year Seminars 110EM - Emily Dickinson At MHC

Drawing on archival records and other documents, including Dickinson's letters and poems, students in this seminar will explore what Dickinson's year at Mary Lyon's Mount Holyoke might have meant to her as student and poet. We will also examine Lyon's vision of women's education, as well as contrasting visions of education in Old New England from such writers and thinkers as Emerson, Thoreau, and Stowe.