Revolutions in Taste, 1773–1818

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).

• Introduction, Fiona Price; Chapter 1 ‘Real Solemn History’: Rethinking Tradition, Fiona Price; Chapter 2 ‘Fashion’s Brightest Arts Decoy’: Fashion and Originality, Fiona Price; Chapter 3 Disinterest, Economics, and the Tasteful Spectator, Fiona Price; Chapter 4 Self-control: Romantic Psychologies of taste, Fiona Price; Chapter 5 Rustic Tastes: The Romantic Tale, Fiona Price; Conclusion Conclusion, Fiona Price;

'This is an original and fascinating study of important texts by women which will change how they are read. It provides a starting point for discussion of writers who have not received attention, like Harriet and Sophia Lee and Priscilla Wakefield, as well as furthering study of those about whom critical discussion exists, including Clara Reeve and Elizabeth Hamilton.' Lisa Vargo, University of Saskatchewan, Canada ’... a fascinating study of Romantic-period taste...an important contribution to understanding of Romantic-period women writers’ contributions to class-based aesthetics... Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.’ Choice ’Revolutions in Taste is an effective book that makes an important argument, one especially needed at this moment of resurgent theoretical interest in aesthetics and politics.’ Journal of British Studies 'Much of the value of this engaging book resides in the particularity of its own glance which, in a similar way, combines rigorous close-readings of important but neglected texts, with a comprehensive overview of the political significance of taste.' BARS Bulletin and Review