The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851

The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851
Author: Joanna Baillie
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1999
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780719054747

Joanna Baillie's poetry ranges from songs and lyrical ballads to dramatic monologues and realistic blank verse. This edition of her work gives readers the opportunity to assess her significance and her craft.

Joanna Baillie, Romantic Dramatist

Joanna Baillie, Romantic Dramatist
Author: Thomas C. Crochunis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2004-02-24
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1134422490

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.

Mothers of the Nation

Mothers of the Nation
Author: Anne K. Mellor
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780253213693

Mellor contests the notion that women occupied a separate private sphere in England during the Romantic Era. Instead, women writers participated in the public sphere, shaping public opinion & promoting a new concept of British national identity.