Utopianism and Joanna Baillie
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Utopianism and Joanna Baillie

The Liberating and Debilitating Imagination in Joanna Baillie’s Orra and The Dream

William D. Brewer, Appalachian State University

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Works Cited

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———. The Dream:  A Tragedy, in Prose, in Three ActsThe Dramatic and Poetical Works.  260–276.

———.  OrraThe Broadview Anthology of Romantic Drama.  Ed. Jeffrey N. Cox and Michael Gamer.  Peterborough:  Ontario:  Broadview P, 2003.  134–164.

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