Love and Conquest:
The Erotics of Colonial Discourse in
Emily Dickinson's Poems and Letters



Susan I dreamed
of you, last
night, and send
a Carnation to
indorse it--
Sister of Ophir--
Ah Peru
Subtle the Sum
That purchase
you--
"The New World was a lottery, where great prizes were so few
that the odds were against the player; yet in the game he was
content to stake health, fortune, and, too, often his fair fame."
-William Prescott, The History of the Conquest of Peru, 1856.

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