Joanna Baillie - (1762 - 1851)
Scottish poet, playwright, editor, and critic.
Although Baillie was well recognized and respected among the literati during her life-time, her works fell into neglect so...
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In 1798, the same year that Lyrical Ballads was published anonymously, another anonymous publication appeared under the cumbersome title A Series of Plays: in which it is attempted to delineate the st...
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Below, Carhart contends that Baillie's insistence that her plays present moral instruction and that individuals represent particular emotions was at the expense of believable characters. Carhar...
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In the following excerpt, Donohue contends that the public failure of De Montfort was due largely to Baillie's unpopular but important innovation of internalizing conflict within the play...
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Below, Mathur argues that Baillie's plays are, for the most part, dramatically unsound but acknowledges Baillie's strength as a poet.
The dramatic works of the major poets of the Romanti...
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In the following essay, Zall provides an overview of Baillie's literary career and explores the drawbacks of Baillie's high reputation.
Wordsworth pictured Joanna Baillie as the very mod...
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In the following essay, Watkins stresses the historical value of De Monfort's depictions of social conditions and class conflicts.
Recent scholarly work on Romanticism and feminism has begun to...
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In the essay below, Mellor argues that Baillie's works offered alternative, feminist views to contemporary readers in place of the commonly extolled views of white middle-class males.
Joanna Ba...
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In the following essay, Purinton places Baillie within the context of other women writers of her time and examines the overlap of political and gender issues in Count Basil and De Monfort.
Many of the...
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Below, Wordsworth praises Baillie 's poetry and explores its strong influence on William Wordsworth's lyrical ballads.
Among the many volumes of the period amiably titled Poems on variou...
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In the following essay, Burroughs explores "closet plays " — performed for private audiences—and their usefulness to women authors in advancing feminist perspectives. Burro...
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In the following essay, Norton presents an overview of Baillie's dramatic works.
The dramatists of the early nineteenth century have been condemned for their slavish imitation of Elizabethan tr...
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In the following essay, Breen presents an overview of Baillie's achievements in poetry, offering readings of a range of her work in order to show that she is a poet of high stature.
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In the following essay, Gilbert focuses on the use of the masquerade in Basil and argues that the device is used to comment on female visibility and invisibility as well as Baillie's own relati...
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In the following essay, Colón argues that Baillie's rhetorical strategy in The Bride transforms the imperial endeavor of converting the natives of Sri Lanka into a revolutionary discours...
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In the following essay, Gilroy and Hanley analyze Baillie's dramatic career, her ideas about human frailty, and her status as a Romantic writer.
Life
Joanna Baillie was born in Bothwell, Lanark...
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In the following essay, Brigham contrasts the views of Baillie and Edmund Burke on the subject of “the passions,” focusing on how De Monfort criticizes Burke's notions of the unre...
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In the following excerpt, Cox examines Baillie's use of Gothic conventions in De Monfort. The critic focuses specifically on the depiction of women in Gothic literature as representative of the...
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In the following essay, Brewer analyzes the relationship between Baillie and Lord Byron, discussing Byron's admiration for Baillie even when he dismissed other female writers; her influence on ...
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In the following essay, Burroughs discusses Baillie's categorization of her plays as closet drama and considers questions about gender, identity, and repression in her works, particularly in th...
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In the following essay, Burroughs examines Baillie's exploration in The Tryal of the “theatre of the closet,” or private theatricals performed by amateurs to invited audiences, sh...
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In the following essay, Gilroy offers close readings of three poems by Baillie set outside her usual Scottish domestic milieu in order to show how the poet explores the limits imposed on women in life...
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In the following excerpt, Scullion views Baillie as the most important playwright in Scotland in the 1800s and sees her works as having a form peculiar to the nineteenth century.
John Any-Body would h...
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In the following essay, Friedman-Romell contends that Baillie solidified her reputation as her country's most important playwright through her characterizations of Scottish heroes, her discours...
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In the following essay, Dowd shows how and why Baillie distanced herself from German Sturm und Drang melodrama even while using its techniques—especially those of grand spectacle, the depiction...
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Joanna Baillie - (1762 - 1851)
Joanna Baillie
