Symbolic Interactions: Social Problems and Literary Interventions in the Works of Baillie, Scott, and Landor (Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture)

by Regina Hewitt

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Taking literally Joanna Baillie's claim that drama can promote social justice, "Symbolic Interactions" explores how plays by Baillie, novels by Walter Scott, and "Imaginary Conversations" by Walter Savage Landor address problems of capital punishment, poverty, and political participation. Baillie's and Scott's preoccupation with affective responses to criminals and beggars takes on new significance when situated next to nationalist efforts to use legal differences to promulgate an image of Scotland as a more compassionate society than England and when contrasted with Landor's confidence in political claims-making to meet social needs.
  • ISBN10 0838756395
  • ISBN13 9780838756393
  • Publish Date 8 May 2006
  • Publish Status Unknown
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Associated University Presses
  • Imprint Bucknell University Press,U.S.
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 280
  • Language English