Joanna Baillie, Romantic Dramatist

Critical Essays

AvThomas C. Crochunis

Inbunden, Engelska, 2003

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This superb collection of new essays offers a unique insight into the work of a leading women dramatist of the Romantic era. Contributors offer:*contextual material for those new to Baillie's work*examinations of the relationships between her plays and the philosophical and scientific writing of the era*discussion of Baillie's theatrical methods*extended interpretations of individual plays.Ending years of neglect of Baillie's crucial work, this volume is essential reading for those working on Romanticism, women's writing, or drama of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

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Utgivningsdatum:2003-12-18
Mått:156 x 234 x 23 mm
Vikt:780 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:336
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780415299909

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Thomas C. Crochunis has published essays on drama and theatre history in Gothic Studies, European Romantic Review and Romanticism on the Net, and also in several collections including Women in British Romantic Theatre and Visual Media in the Humanities. He is co-editor of the British Women Playwrights around 1800 Web project.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 Introduction, Thomas C. Crochunis; Chapter 2 Evolution of a writer, Judith Bailey Slagle; Chapter 3 Joanna Baillie and George Ticknor, Bruce Graver; Chapter 4 Joanna Baillie, Matthew Baillie, and the pathology of the passions, Frederick Burwick; Chapter 5 Unromantic Caledon, Dorothy McMillan; Chapter 6 Joanna Baillie's theatre of cruelty, Victoria Myers; Chapter 7 Joanna Baillie and the re-staging of history and gender, Greg Kucich; Chapter 8 A neural theatre, Alan Richardson; Chapter 9 Staging Baillie, Jeffrey N. Cox; Chapter 10 Joanna Baillie's ambivalent dramaturgy, Thomas C. Crochunis; Chapter 11 “A reasonable woman's desire”, Catherine B. Burroughs; Chapter 12 Baillie's Orra, Julie A. Carlson; Chapter 13 Pedagogy and passions, Marjean D. Purinton; Chapter 14 Joanna Baillie, Ken A. Bugajski;