Abstract
ABSTRACTThis essay argues that Joanna Baillie adopts a medical framework for dramatic spectatorship because she found the “medical gaze” a surprising way to solve some problems in theories of sympathy and social concern. After situating Baillie’s “Introductory Discourse” within eighteenth-century arguments about natural sociability, the essay reads her aesthetic theory alongside another text of 1798, Alexander Crichton’s Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Mental Derangement, to show what medical classification and diagnosis seemed to offer her account of the social mind.
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