Author: Joanna Baillie
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838638125
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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These annotated letters present the first personal glimpse of this Scottish playwright as she wrote and lived. It documents her problems with publishers, describes her encounters with Wordsworth, Byron, Southey, Berry and other literary figures, outlines a long relationship with Scott and places an active literary woman in the historical and social setting of early to mid-nineteenth century Britain.
Author: Joanna Baillie
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719054747
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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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.
Author: Amanda Gilroy
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1315476797
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 353
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This work includes Joanna Baillie's important poems and critical prefaces, the tragedies "De Montfort" and "Basil", and the comedy, "The Alienated Manor", together with substantial extracts from her other works.
Author: Thomas C. Crochunis
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134422482
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 335
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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.
Author: Judith Bailey Slagle
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838639498
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Much of the biography is based on Baillie's now published letters (FDUP, 1999) to family members, literary figures, scientists, religious leaders, artists, and friends in England, Scotland, and the United States; and her correspondence is supplemented with further biographical evidence and with critical commentary on her works."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Paula R. Feldman
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9780874517248
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Essays forging a new definition of Romanticism that includes the wide range of women's artistic expression.
Author: Ann Thompson
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719047046
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Comprehensively rediscovers a lost tradition of women's writing on Shakespeare.
Author: Herschel Baker
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674430013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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Hyder Rollins' publications ranging from the Elizabethans to Keats, admirably exemplified his dedication to scholarship. This bibliography constitutes in terms of quantity alone, a record of formidable achievement; and the ordering of this wealth of publication gives scholars the means of easy reference to a sequence of impeccable research.
Author: National Library of Scotland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 920
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Author: Paula R. Backscheider
Publisher: Scholarly Title
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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