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The document discusses the use of objects in literary and scientific research. It references Matthew Baillie's 1793 work "The Morbid Anatomy of Some of the Most Important Parts of the Body" which examined changes in bodily structures from diseases. Joanna Baillie's "Introductory Discourse" explored how examining people's behaviors and emotions could provide insights. The document asks how objects could be incorporated into text-based research and provides examples of how they have been used historically in medical and literary works to study human anatomy and conditions.

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Objects, Literature, and Science Sharon Ruston
The object of this work is to explain more minutely than has hitherto been done, the changes of structure arising from morbid actions in some of the most important parts of the human body (M. Baillie, Morbid Anatomy, p. i). The subject in itself is extremely difficult, because morbid actions are going on in the minute parts of an animal body excluded from observation; but still the examination of morbid structure seems to be one of the most probable means of throwing light upon it. ( ibid, p. ii).
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Joanna Baillies Introductory Discourse to a Series of Plays nothing has become so much an object of mans curiosity as man himself tracing [the] varieties of understanding and temper which constitute the characters of men extraordinary situations of difficulty and distress
It is not merely under the violent agitations of passion, that man so rouses and interests us; even the smallest indications of an unquiet mind, the restless eye, the muttering lip, the half-checked exclamation, and the hasty start, will set our attention as anxiously upon the watch, as the distant flashes of a gathering storm (Baillies Introductory Discourse)
General Questions How might we use objects in text-based research and what would be gained by doing so? How could you use objects in your own research?
Bibliography Baillie, Joanna, Plays on the Passions , ed. Peter Duthie (Ontario: Broadview, 2001) Baillie, Matthew, The Morbid Anatomy of Some of the Most Important Parts of the Body (London: J. Johnson, 1793). Burwick, Frederick, Joanna Baillie, Matthew Baillie, and the pathology of the passions, Joanna Baillie: Romantic Dramatist , ed. Thomas Crochunis (Routledge, 2004), pp. 48-69. Jordanova, Ludmilla, Defining Features: Scientific and Medical Portraits, 1660-2000 (London: Reaktion Books, 2000). McMillan, Dorothy, Dr Baillie, 1798: The Year of the Lyrical Ballads , ed. by Richard Cronin (Houndsmills: Macmillan, 1998), pp. 68-93. Myers, Victoria, Joanna Baillie and the Emergence of Medico-Legal Discourse, European Romantic Review , 18:3 (July 2007), pp. 339-359. Richardson, Alan, A Neural Theatre: Joanna Baillies Plays on the Passions , Joanna Baillie: Romantic Dramatist , ed. Thomas Crochunis (Routledge, 2004), pp. 130-146. Stabler, Jane, Burke to Byron, Barbauld to Baillie, 1790-1830 (Houndsmills: Palgave, 2002)

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Objects, Literature, and Science

  • 1. Objects, Literature, and Science Sharon Ruston
  • 2. The object of this work is to explain more minutely than has hitherto been done, the changes of structure arising from morbid actions in some of the most important parts of the human body (M. Baillie, Morbid Anatomy, p. i). The subject in itself is extremely difficult, because morbid actions are going on in the minute parts of an animal body excluded from observation; but still the examination of morbid structure seems to be one of the most probable means of throwing light upon it. ( ibid, p. ii).
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  • 5. Joanna Baillies Introductory Discourse to a Series of Plays nothing has become so much an object of mans curiosity as man himself tracing [the] varieties of understanding and temper which constitute the characters of men extraordinary situations of difficulty and distress
  • 6. It is not merely under the violent agitations of passion, that man so rouses and interests us; even the smallest indications of an unquiet mind, the restless eye, the muttering lip, the half-checked exclamation, and the hasty start, will set our attention as anxiously upon the watch, as the distant flashes of a gathering storm (Baillies Introductory Discourse)
  • 7. General Questions How might we use objects in text-based research and what would be gained by doing so? How could you use objects in your own research?
  • 8. Bibliography Baillie, Joanna, Plays on the Passions , ed. Peter Duthie (Ontario: Broadview, 2001) Baillie, Matthew, The Morbid Anatomy of Some of the Most Important Parts of the Body (London: J. Johnson, 1793). Burwick, Frederick, Joanna Baillie, Matthew Baillie, and the pathology of the passions, Joanna Baillie: Romantic Dramatist , ed. Thomas Crochunis (Routledge, 2004), pp. 48-69. Jordanova, Ludmilla, Defining Features: Scientific and Medical Portraits, 1660-2000 (London: Reaktion Books, 2000). McMillan, Dorothy, Dr Baillie, 1798: The Year of the Lyrical Ballads , ed. by Richard Cronin (Houndsmills: Macmillan, 1998), pp. 68-93. Myers, Victoria, Joanna Baillie and the Emergence of Medico-Legal Discourse, European Romantic Review , 18:3 (July 2007), pp. 339-359. Richardson, Alan, A Neural Theatre: Joanna Baillies Plays on the Passions , Joanna Baillie: Romantic Dramatist , ed. Thomas Crochunis (Routledge, 2004), pp. 130-146. Stabler, Jane, Burke to Byron, Barbauld to Baillie, 1790-1830 (Houndsmills: Palgave, 2002)