Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Aesthetics and Orientalism in Mary Wortley Montagu's letters
- 2 Janet Schaw and the aesthetics of colonialism
- 3 Landscape aesthetics and the paradox of the female picturesque
- 4 Helen Maria Williams' revolutionary landscapes
- 5 Mary Wollstonecraft's anti-aesthetics
- 6 Dorothy Wordsworth and the cultural politics of scenic tourism
- 7 The picturesque and the female sublime in Ann Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho
- 8 Aesthetics, gender, and empire in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM
Select bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 February 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Aesthetics and Orientalism in Mary Wortley Montagu's letters
- 2 Janet Schaw and the aesthetics of colonialism
- 3 Landscape aesthetics and the paradox of the female picturesque
- 4 Helen Maria Williams' revolutionary landscapes
- 5 Mary Wollstonecraft's anti-aesthetics
- 6 Dorothy Wordsworth and the cultural politics of scenic tourism
- 7 The picturesque and the female sublime in Ann Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho
- 8 Aesthetics, gender, and empire in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM
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- Women Travel Writers and the Language of Aesthetics, 1716–1818 , pp. 291 - 305Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995