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Aesthetic Judge
Author_Fiona Price
British women's prose
Canterbury Tales
Castle Rackrent
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Coleridge's Speaker
Common Aesthetic Experience
Cultural Capital Work
Democratic Account
Devotional Taste
Eolian Harp
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Florence Macarthy
gothic narrative forms
Iron Gate
Lady Clonbrony
literary taste theory
Lyrical Ballads
Male Romantic Poets
Miscellaneous Pieces
Mrs Mason
National Tale
Original Poetic Genius
political aesthetics
Romantic period literature
Rousseauian Primitivism
sentimental fiction
Solitary Wanderer
Warrington Academy
Wild Irish Girl
Wollstonecraft's Account
women shaping Romantic aesthetics
Young Lady's Tale
Young Lady’s Tale
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780754660262
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 18 Sep 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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How and to what extent did women writers shape and inform the aesthetics of Romanticism? Were undervalued genres such as the romance, gothic fiction, the tale, and the sentimental and philosophical novel part of a revolution leading to newer, more democratic models of taste? Fiona Price takes up these important questions in her wide-ranging study of women's prose writing during an extended Romantic period. While she offers a re-evaluation of major women writers such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria Edgeworth, Ann Radcliffe and Charlotte Smith, Price also places emphasis on less well-known figures, including Joanna Baillie, Anna Letitia Barbauld, Elizabeth Hamilton and Priscilla Wakefield. The revolution in taste occasioned by their writing, she argues, was not only aesthetic but, following in the wake of British debates on the French Revolution, politically charged. Her book departs from previous studies of aesthetics that emphasize the differences between male and female writers or focus on higher status literary forms such as the treatise. In demonstrating that women writers' discussion of taste can be understood as an intervention at the most fundamental level of political involvement, Price advances our understanding of Romantic aesthetics.
Fiona Price is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Chichester. She has published on eighteenth-century aesthetics, Romantic women's writing, and Scottish Common Sense Philosophy. She is also editor of Jane Porter's novel The Scottish Chiefs (1810; 2007).
