'We – Bee and I – live by the quaffing –': Seduction and Volitional Freedom in Emily Dickinson's Alc...
'We – Bee and I – live by the quaffing –': Seduction and Volitional Freedom in Emily Dickinson's Alcohol Poems
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Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
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Emily Dickinson's "We – Bee and I – live by the quaffing" (Fr244) is an alcohol poem that tells a humorous, but paradoxical tale of seduction and volition; it bears a resemblance to the nineteenth-century drunkard narratives that featured young men seduced by their peers to a life of drinking in saloons, inns, or bars. These narratives regularly ap...
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'We – Bee and I – live by the quaffing –': Seduction and Volitional Freedom in Emily Dickinson's Alcohol Poems
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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2184237549
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2184237549
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1059-6879,1096-858X
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1096-858X
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10.1353/edj.2018.0004
