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| Title: |
“Unball'd Sockets” and “The Mockery of Speech”: Diagnostic Anxiety and the Theater of Joanna Baillie |
| Author: |
Elliott, Nathan |
| Appeared in: |
European romantic review |
| Paging: | Volume 18 (2007) nr. 1 pages 83-103 |
| Year: |
2007-01 |
| Contents: |
This essay demonstrates how the plays of Joanna Baillie participate in conversations about representation in late-eighteenth-century anatomy. The anatomical and medical practice of Baillie's uncles John and William Hunter focused their attention on interpretive issues, and led them to express doubt and frustration with scientific representation. This essay argues that Joanna Baillie experienced a similar frustration, and employed gothic tropes to mark moments when scientific and diagnostic uncertainty proved difficult to resolve with her stated theatrical project. Doing so reveals a number of important points to those scholars specifically interested in Baillie's work, as well as those interested more generally in literary history and the history of science. In the case of Joanna Baillie, we see the scientific nature of her project heightening her awareness of issues of representation and interpretation. As a result, Baillie, so often seen as a supremely confident playwright, emerges as someone who persisted with her work despite serious doubts about the potential theatrical and scientific success of her project. Concentrating on the work of the anatomists and physicians in Joanna Baillie's family also helps to reveal the important ways in which these practitioners gradually became aware of the subjective nature of their own projects. |
| Publisher: |
Routledge |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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