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Theatricals of Day - Emily Dickinson and Nineteenth-Century American Popular Culture (Hardcover)
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Theatricals of Day - Emily Dickinson and Nineteenth-Century American Popular Culture (Hardcover)
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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.
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