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1. Introduction 1. Introduction
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2. Anna Letitia Barbauld and the Devotional Sublime 2. Anna Letitia Barbauld and the Devotional Sublime
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3. Mary Wollstonecraft and the Politics of Taste 3. Mary Wollstonecraft and the Politics of Taste
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4. An Aesthetics of Character: Joanna Baillie 4. An Aesthetics of Character: Joanna Baillie
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5. Democratizing Taste: Elizabeth Hamilton 5. Democratizing Taste: Elizabeth Hamilton
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6. Originality, Independence, and Maria Edgeworth 6. Originality, Independence, and Maria Edgeworth
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7. Conclusion 7. Conclusion
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The Aesthetics of the Romantic Period and Women’s Writing
Get accessFiona Price is author of Reinventing Liberty: Nation, Commerce and the Historical Novel from Walpole to Scott (2016) and Revolutions in Taste 1773-1818: Women Writers and the Aesthetics of Romanticism (2009) and editor, with Benjamin Dew, of Historical Writing in Britain, 1688-1830: Visions of History (2014). She has edited two historical novels, Jane Porter’s The Scottish Chiefs (1810; 2007) and Sarah Green’s Private History of the Court of England (1808; 2011). She is currently working on a monograph on the idea of the ‘real’ in the Romantic-period novel. She is Professor of English Literature at the University of Chichester.
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Published:16 August 2023
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Abstract
While the aesthetics of the Romantic period are commonly associated with the work of a limited number of male poets, the gendered nature of such thought in the era ensured that women writers commented extensively and in unprecedented numbers on matters of taste. In her polemical works, the radical Mary Wollstonecraft argued that the philosopher Edmund Burke had created an aesthetic that was not only gendered but fundamentally inegalitarian. In response, she proposed a retreat from the social to the natural and a rejection of convention in favor of originality. But other women writers, while also rejecting Burke’s gendering of the sublime and the beautiful, were suspicious of Wollstonecraft’s account of originality. As they reassessed how accurate aesthetic judgments could be made within the social space, they reshaped Romantic aesthetics and created the conditions for realism.
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