Baillie's

And as I charge down this toboggan run at frightening speeds, at the edge of capsizing on the sharp curves, feeling the torque and rattle in my bones, my heart feathering through my breast, it occurs to me that this is a modern example of Baillie's sublime.

Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 3 Richard Bangs 2011

And as I charge down this toboggan run at frightening speeds, at the edge of capsizing on the sharp curves, feeling the torque and rattle in my bones, my heart feathering through my breast, it occurs to me that this is a modern example of Baillie's sublime.

Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 3 Richard Bangs 2011

And as I charge down this toboggan run at frightening speeds, at the edge of capsizing on the sharp curves, feeling the torque and rattle in my bones, my heart feathering through my breast, it occurs to me that this is a modern example of Baillie's sublime.

Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 3 Richard Bangs 2011

It's part of an 82-minute program of Mr. Baillie's films that will be introduced by the filmmaker on Friday.

Screen Shots of Adrenaline Steve Dollar 2011

And as I charge down this toboggan run at frightening speeds, at the edge of capsizing on the sharp curves, feeling the torque and rattle in my bones, my heart feathering through my breast, it occurs to me that this is a modern example of Baillie's sublime.

Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 3 Richard Bangs 2011

If personal transformation by itself is considered an inadequate utopian strategy, Baillie's situating her utopian project in the theater may enhance her credibility as a utopian thinker by balancing personal transformation (i.e., the control of the passions) with an existing collective cultural institution.

Utopianism and Joanna Baillie: A Preface to Converging Revolutions 2008

Later in the poem, Baillie's narrator calls attention to the universal appeal of "mankind ['s]" "stor [ies] of himself" with the community that gathers at the hind's house.

'[S]hak[ing] the dwellings of the great': Liberation in Joanna Baillie’s Poems (1790) 2008

Other changes suggest a shift in Baillie's attitude.

'[S]hak[ing] the dwellings of the great': Liberation in Joanna Baillie’s Poems (1790) 2008

The estrangement from prevailing discourses about the sexed mind created by Baillie's comedies therefore contributes to anxieties about what constituted masculinity and femininity, and how the culture might define male and female sexuality in medico-scientific terms.

Feminist Utopianism and Female Sexuality in Joanna Baillie’s Comedies 2008

While Baillie's own medical knowledge may question the legitimacy of phrenology as science, her satire of it in The Match may, like Berkeley's tar-water, function metaphorically as utopianism.

Feminist Utopianism and Female Sexuality in Joanna Baillie’s Comedies 2008