Theatricals of Day
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19th century American amusements
19th century cultural history
19th century literary studies
19th century minstrel songs
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American cultural history through a poet's lens
American popular culture 1800s
amusement and political awareness in literature
antebellum political tensions in print
Atlantic Monthly readership habits
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blending of highbrow and lowbrow amusements
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Civil War era literary influences
crosscurrents of journalism and poetry
cultural amusements shaping American poetry
cultural history behind Dickinson's poems
cultural theory and Dickinson
Dickinson and Harper's Magazine
Dickinson and imaginative play
Dickinson and musical performance
Dickinson and popular music
Dickinson and visual culture
Dickinson cultural criticism
Dickinson literary analysis
Dickinson piano music
Dickinson studies popular culture
Dickinson's era entertainment
dime museums and Victorian curiosities
domestic performance traditions
Emily Dickinson and the Civil War
Emily Dickinson and theater
Emily Dickinson cultural influences
Emily Dickinson entertainment influences
entertainment history New England
entertainment networks in antebellum America
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everyday diversions
feminist literary studies Dickinson
gender and public spectacle in the 19th century
Harper's Magazine literary culture
hidden facets of Dickinson's world
historical popular entertainment in literature
how popular culture shaped Dickinson
humor in Dickinson's poetry
Hutchinson Family Singers performances
influence of entertainment on literature
influence of stage performance on writing
intersections of music and verse
intersections of play and protest in writing
intersections of politics and performance
Jenny Lind American tours
literary responses to slavery debates
media influences on poets
minstrel show music history
music and poetry 19th century America
music hall echoes in 19th-century verse
musical influence on Emily Dickinson
musical life of New England households
nineteenth-century American leisure activities
overlooked contexts of canonical poets
periodicals shaping poetic imagination
piano repertoire of the 1800s
poet and performance culture
poet as performer
poetry and historical context
poetry and performance studies
poetry and political conflict
poetry inspired by public amusements
popular media 19th century
popular music in Dickinson poems
popular songs shaping literary sensibility
private engagement with public culture
reading Dickinson through popular culture
reading habits of Emily Dickinson
spectacle and social critique in poetry
Springfield Republican Emily Dickinson
Springfield Republican historical context
theatergoing in 1800s
theatergoing women in the 1800s
traveling circuses in New England
Victorian musical entertainments
what did Dickinson read and watch
what inspired Emily Dickinson's poetry
whimsy and irony in Dickinson
women and Victorian amusements
women poets and public life
Product details
- ISBN 9781625344427
- Weight: 417g
- Dimensions: 154 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 19 Nov 2019
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In her own private ways, Emily Dickinson participated in the popular entertainments of her time. On her piano, she performed popular musical numbers, many from the tradition of minstrelsy, and at theaters, she listened to famous musicians, including Jenny Lind and, likely, the Hutchinson Family Singers. In reading the Atlantic Monthly, the Springfield Republican, and Harper's, she kept up with the roiling conflicts over slavery and took in current fiction and verse. And, she enjoyed the occasional excursion to the traveling circus and appreciated the attractions of the dime museum. Whatever her aspirations were regarding participation in a public arena, the rich world of popular culture offered Dickinson a view of both the political and social struggles of her time and the amusements of her contemporaries.
"Theatricals of Day" explores how popular culture and entertainments are seen, heard, and felt in Dickinson's writing. In accessible prose, Sandra Runzo proposes that the presence of popular entertainment in Dickinson's life and work opens our eyes to new dimensions of the poems, illuminating the ways in which the poet was attentive to strife and conflict, to amusement, and to play.
Sandra Runzo is associate professor of English and Lorena Woodrow Burke Chair of English at Denison University.
