Contact Details

Tel: +44 (0) 1243 816326
Email: f.price@chi.ac.uk

Fiona Price is a Lecturer in English at University of Chichester. She has written extensively on eighteenth-century women's writing and aesthetics. She is currently working on a monograph on the historical novel in the decades before Sir Walter Scott's Waverley (1814), and her edition of the historical novel Jane Porter's The Scottish Chiefs (1810) has been published by Broadview. Fiona would be particularly interested in supervising PhD-level students in the area of late eighteenth-century women's writing or the eighteenth-century historical novel. Fiona is also a founding member of the South Coast Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Research Group (visit Scerrg website) which aims to provide a dynamic research environment for staff and postgraduates working in the long eighteenth century.

Selected Publications

Monograph

Revolutions in Taste: Women's Writing and the Aesthetics of Romanticism 1773-1818 (Ashgate, 2009).

Editions

Jane Porter's The Scottish Chiefs, picture left (Broadview, 2007).

Sarah Green Private History of the Court of England (Pickering and Chatto, 2010)

Edited Collection

Silence, Sublimity and Suppression in the Romantic Period, ed. Fiona Price and Scott Masson (New York: Edwin Mellen, 2002).

Articles

"'The Spirit of Innovation': Jane Porter and the Other Historical Novel". Modern Language Review 101.3 (2006): 638-52.

"'Myself creating what I saw': the morality of the spectator in eighteenth-century Gothic". Gothic Studies 8.2 (November 2006): 1-17.

"Democratising Taste: Scottish Common Sense Philosophy and Elizabeth Hamilton ". Romanticism 8.2 (February 2003) 179-196.

Chapters in books

‘Elizabeth Hamilton’s Letters on Education: Common Sense Alternatives to Scepticism and their Aesthetic Consequences’  in Gavin Budge, ed, Romantic Empiricism: Poetics and the Philosophy of
Common Sense, 1780-1830 (Bucknell University Press, 2007).

"'Inconsistent Rhapsodies': Samuel Richardson and the Politics of Romance'", Blackwell's Companion to Romance, ed. Corinne Sanders (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004), 269-286.

"'Achievements of Genius': Female Literary Originality", Silence, Sublimity and Suppression in the Romantic Period, ed. Fiona Price and Scott Masson (New York: Edwin Mellen, 2002), 85-108.

Research Interests

Late eighteenth-century women's writing; aesthetics; the romance; the eighteenth-century novel; eighteenth-century poetry; Romanticism; the historical novel.

Teaching Interests

Restoration to Romanticism; Romantic women's writing; Renaissance literature; language form and function and variety and change; critical theory.