Joanna Baillie, Romantic Dramatist - Thomas C. Crochunis

Joanna Baillie, Romantic Dramatist

Critical Essays
Buch | Softcover
336 Seiten
2013
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-85984-4 (ISBN)
59,80 inkl. MwSt
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.
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.

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.

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;

Erscheint lt. Verlag 12.12.2013
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 476 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-415-85984-0 / 0415859840
ISBN-13 978-0-415-85984-4 / 9780415859844
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