Closet Stages: Joanna Baillie and the Theater Theory of British Romantic Women Writers

Catherine B. Burroughs

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 1997

Closet Stages

Joanna Baillie and the Theater Theory of British Romantic Women Writers

Catherine B. Burroughs

https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512801019

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About this book

Catherine Burroughs reveals how a concern with the performative aspects of daily life and the movement between public and private spheres produced a notion of theater that complicates the Romantic opposition between "closet" and "stage."

Author / Editor information

Catherine B. Burroughs is Professor of English at Wells College.

Reviews

"This is the book we have been waiting for: the first to place the much-studied and by now canonical 'mental theater' of such Romantic poets as Byron, Coleridge, Keats, Wordsworth, and Shelley in the far more illuminating context of the dramatic writing and theater criticism of the leading playwright of the romantic period in England, Joanna Baillie."—Anne Mellor, University of California, Los Angeles

"Closet Stages is an important book, not only for its astute readings and clear vision of what theater scholarship should look like but also for its unwavering sense of the importance of women's cultural production to our overall understanding of the fabric of nineteenth-century life."—Daniel O'Quinn, Nineteenth-Century Literature

"Lively and provocative."—Byron Journal

"An important book for redefining what texts are central to discussions of women's writing and dramaturgy in the Romantic period and for offering a theoretical frame in which to pursue criticism of such texts."—Essays in Theatre/Etudes thetrales

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
1. "The Value of Our Criticism": Constructing Women's Theater Theory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Representing the Female Actor: Celebrity Narratives, Women's Theories of Acting, and Social Theaters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
3. Joanna Baillie's Theater of the Closet: Female Romantic Playwrights and Preface Writing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
4. Conflicted Performance Styles in Baillie's First Volume of Plays on the Passions (1798) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
5. Private Theatricals and Baillie's The Tryal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Appendix: Selected List of Texts Containing Women's Theater Theory Published in Great Britain (1790-1850) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 256
Illustrations
- Other: 1 illus.
Keywords: Literature; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: August 5, 2015
ISBN: 9781512801019