Overview

Joanna Baillie, Romantic Dramatist is the first-ever collection of critical essays on one of Britain's most prolific literary dramatists. A playwright whose work is rapidly gaining the attention of theatre artists and scholars of eighteenth and nineteenth century literary history, dramatic history and women's studies, Joanna Baillie's plays have in recent years been viewed as important evidence in our rethinking of each of these fields of study and, as more have been included in classroom anthologies and taught widely in undergraduate and graduate courses, teachers and students have drawn upon the kinds of contexts that are thoroughly considered in the essays of this volume. This unique collection includes contributions from leading scholars of women's dramatic writing of the Romantic era and the specialists across the various fields of study with greatest relevance to Baillie's playwriting. The essays range from introductory contexts for those encountering Baillie's work for the first time to thought-provoking examinations of the complex relationships between Baillie's plays and other forms of philosophical and scientific writing of her era and of Baillie's theatrical and dramatic methods, in some cases providing extended interpretations of individual plays. Teachers and students will welcome this collection, which offers a variety of approaches to exploring the work of this important dramatist.

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Author:   Thomas C. Crochunis
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.657kg
ISBN:  

9780415299909

ISBN 10:   041529990
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   18 December 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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;

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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.

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