Hear the name Emily Dickinson, and you’ll probably think of the virginal woman in white, the reclusive Belle of Amherst who died with her “letter to the world” — as she wrote in one of her enigmatic poems — unsent.

But “Dickinson,” a half-hour series that premieres Friday on Apple’s new streaming service, aims to banish any idea of the poet as the emotionally crippled cat-lady of American literature.

Forget baking bread and making friends with flowers. This is a Dickinson, played by Hailee Steinfeld, who takes midnight carriage rides with Death (the rapper Wiz Khalifa), and denounces the patriarchy as — to use a genteel paraphrase — bunk. It’s also one who throws raging parties (complete with a hip-hop playlist and twerking), experiments with opium, makes out with her bestie (and future sister-in-law) and gets her period.

Alena Smith, the show’s creator, describes it as “a coming-of-age story about a radical young female artist who was ahead of her time.” It’s also one whose anachronisms and other liberties are intended to underline a serious point.