Feminist Utopianism and Female Sexuality in Joanna Baillie’s Comedies

Notes

¹ See Regina Hewitt’s Symbolic Interations 119-124; “Improving the Law,” 50-55; Michael Wiley’s Romantic Geography 44; and Lucy Sargisson, Utopian Bodies 6-12.
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² In a Marxist analysis of culture, Fredric Jameson asserts we must recognize the simultaneously ideological and utopian functions of an artistic text. According to Jameson, all class consciousness and all ideology are utopian by their very nature insofar as they express the unity of a collectivity 286-99. Sargisson’s feminist utopia, on the other hand, advocates an open-endedness and multiplicity that differs from the unity of Jameson’s socialist utopianism.
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³ See Frederick Burwick 48-50 and Victoria Myers 340-341 for a discussion of the Baillie family backgrounds in medicine.
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⁴ Quoted in Brenda White 417.
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⁵ John Roberton 19.
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⁶ Roberton 27.
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