okay--a real one--

 found this accidentally the other day (I admit I have loved the Howe book) & it's very good:

Petty Materialism: On Metaphor & Violence – Michigan Quarterly Review (umich.edu)

Petty Materialism: On Metaphor & Violence

By Eunsong Kim

What does Emily Dickinson have to do with abolition? Is Susan Howe deploying chattel slavery as a metaphor in order to politicize her Dickinson? I asked over and again over in the seminar. This was 2011; there were no answers.