Professor Fiona Price
Professor of English Literature
About
Fiona Price is Professor of聽English Literature at the 香港六合论坛 and author of two monographs,聽Reinventing Liberty: Nation, Commerce and the Historical Novel from Walpole to Scott聽(Edinburgh, 2016) and聽Revolutions in Taste 1773 鈥� 1818: Women Writers and the Aesthetics of Romanticism聽(Ashgate, 2009). 聽She has edited two historical novels: Jane Porter鈥檚聽The Scottish Chiefs聽(1810; Broadview P, 2007) and Sarah Green鈥檚聽Private History of the Court of England聽(1808; Pickering and Chatto, 2011.) She is editor, with Benjamin Dew, of the book聽Historical Writing in Britain 1689-1830: Visions聽of History聽(2014) and, with Scott Mason, of聽Silence, Sublimity and Suppression in the Romantic Period.聽She has written widely on historical fiction, women’s writing, and the aesthetics of political change.
She is editor of a special issue of Women鈥檚 Writing entitled 鈥淩omantic Women Writers and the Fictions of History鈥� (19.3 [2012]) and has written a number of chapters on the importance of history writing in the period, including a contribution to The Cambridge Companion to Women’s Writing in the Romantic Period (Cambridge University Press, 2014) on聽”National Identities and Regional Affiliations’ (pp. 183-97), a chapter on ‘Romancing the Past: Women’s Historical Fiction, Editorial Pains and Practices’ in聽Editing Women’s Writing, ed. Amy Culley and Anna Fitzer (Routledge, forthcoming)聽and a chapter in聽Reading the (Re)Presented Past: Literature & Historical Consciousness, 1700 to the Present聽(Palgrave, 2012). Other publications in this area include 鈥淩esisting 鈥楾he Spirit of Innovation鈥�: Jane Porter and the Other Historical Novel鈥� (Modern Language Review聽101.3 [2006]: 638-52) and 鈥溾�楢ncient Liberties鈥�: Rewriting the Historical Novel: Thomas Leland, Horace Walpole, and Clara Reeve鈥� (Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies聽34.1 [2011]: 19-38).
Fiona is a founding member of the聽,聽which aims to provide a dynamic research environment for staff and postgraduates working in the long eighteenth century. She co-ordinates the UG modules聽Restoration to Romanticism,聽Genre Prose Fiction, and聽Gothic, Romanticism and Women’s Writing, as well as聽Visions of the Real, on our MA. She is also eager to supervise students working on the Romantic period novel, historical fiction or Romantic period women’s writing.
Key Publications
Books
Price, Fiona.聽Reinventing Liberty: Nation, Commerce and the Historical Novel from Walpole to Scott聽(Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016).
Price, Fiona and Dew, Benjamin, ed.聽British Historical Writing from聽1688-1830: Visions of History聽(Palgrave, 2014).
Price, Fiona.聽Revolutions in Taste: Women’s Writing and the Aesthetics of Romanticism 1773-1818 (Ashgate, 2009)聽(www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754660262)
Price, Fiona, ed. The Scottish Chiefs, by Jane Porter picture left (Broadview, 2007).
Price, Fiona, ed. Private History of the Court of England by Sarah Green (Pickering and Chatto, 2011)
Price, Fiona, and Scott Masson, ed. Silence, Sublimity and Suppression in the Romantic Period (New York: Edwin Mellen, 2002).
Articles
“The Politics of Fear: Gothic Histories, the English Civil War and Walter Scott’s聽Woodstock”,聽Yearbook of English Studies聽47.1聽(2017) pp. 110-124.
“Prosthetic Pasts: H.P. Lovecraft and the Politics of History.”聽Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture, 49.2 (2016)聽pp. 135-158.
鈥溾�楢 Great Deal of History鈥�: Romantic Women Writers and Historical Fiction鈥欌��.聽Introduction to Women鈥檚 Writing聽19.3 (2012): 259-272.
鈥溾�楨xperiments on an Air-Pump鈥�: History, Jane West and The Loyalists (1812).鈥澛燱omen鈥檚 Writing聽19.3 (2012): 315-332.
鈥溾�楢ncient Liberties鈥�: Rewriting the Historical Novel: Thomas Leland, Horace Walpole, and Clara Reeve.鈥澛燡ournal of Eighteenth-Century Studies聽34.1 (2011): 19-38.
鈥淩esisting 鈥楾he Spirit of Innovation鈥�: Jane Porter and the Other Historical Novel.鈥澛燤odern Language Review聽101.3 (2006): 638-52.
鈥溾�楳yself creating what I saw鈥�: The Morality of the Spectator in Eighteenth-Century Gothic.鈥澛燝othic Studies聽8.2 (November 2006): 1-17.
鈥淒emocratising Taste: Scottish Common Sense Philosophy and Elizabeth Hamilton.鈥澛燫omanticism聽8.2 (2003): 179-96.
Chapters in books
“Performing History: Women writers, the Early Historical Novel and Scott” in Caroline McCracken-Flesher Ed. Twentieth-Century Walter Scott (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, Forthcoming 2018)
鈥淩omancing the Past: Women’s Historical Fiction, Editorial Pains and Practices,” in Amy Culley and Anna Fitzer, eds.聽Editing Women’s Writing, 1670-1840. Chawton聽House Library Series. Pickering and Chatto, 2017.
“National Identities, and Regional Affiliations.鈥澛燙ambridge Companion to Women’s Writing in the Romantic Period. Ed. Devoney Looser. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. pp. 183-197
“Making History: Social Unrest, Work and the Post-French Revolution Historical Novel,” in Fiona Price and Benjamin Dew, eds.聽Historical Writing in Britain, 1688-1830: Visions of History聽(Palgrave, 2014), pp. 145-161.
鈥淭he Uses of History: The Historical Novel in the Post-French Revolution Debate and Cornelia Ellis Knight鈥檚 Marcus Flaminius (1792).鈥澛燫eading the (Re)Presented Past: Literature & Historical Consciousness, 1700 to the Present. Ed. Kate Mitchell and Nicola Parsons. Palgrave, 2013.
鈥楨lizabeth Hamilton鈥檚 Letters on Education: Common Sense Alternatives to Scepticism and their Aesthetic Consequences,鈥� in Gavin Budge, ed,聽Romantic Empiricism: Poetics and the Philosophy of Common Sense, 1780-1830聽(Bucknell University Press, 2007).
“‘Inconsistent Rhapsodies’: Samuel Richardson and the Politics of Romance'”,聽Blackwell’s Companion to Romance,聽ed. Corinne Sanders (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004), 269-286.
“‘Achievements of Genius’: Female Literary Originality”,聽Silence, Sublimity and Suppression in the Romantic Period,聽ed. Fiona Price and Scott Masson (New York: Edwin Mellen, 2002), 85-108.
Research
Research Interests
Fiona Price鈥檚 research interests include the historical novel, Romantic and eighteenth-century women’s writing; aesthetics; the romance; the eighteenth-century novel; eighteenth-century poetry; Romanticism
Teaching Interests
Restoration to Romanticism; Romantic women’s writing; Renaissance literature; critical theory.
Supervisory Interests
Fiona would be particularly interested in supervising PhD-level students in the area of Romantic or eighteenth-century women’s writing. She is also interested in supervising students on eighteenth-century prose fiction or the historical novel.
Research Output
Articles
Price, F. (2017) Yearbook of English Studies, 47. pp. 110-124. ISSN 0306-2473
Price, F. (2016) Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture, 49 (2). pp. 135-158. ISSN 0016-6928
Price, F. (2012) Women's Writing, 19 (3). pp. 315-382. ISSN 1747-5848
Price, F. (2012) Women's Writing, 19 (3). pp. 259-272. ISSN 1747-5848
Price, F. (2011) Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies, 34 (1). pp. 19-38.
Price, F. (2002) Romanticism, 8 (2). pp. 179-196. ISSN 1750-0192
Book Sections
Price, F. (2023) In: The Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century. Oxford Handbooks . Oxford University Press, C27S1-C27N1. ISBN 9780197558898
Price, F. (2022) In: Studying English literature in context: critical readings. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 220-235. ISBN 9781108782999
Price, F. (2021) In: Walter Scott at 250: looking forward. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 124-141. ISBN 9781474429870
Price, F. (2017) In: Editing Women's Writing, 1670鈥�1840. Routledge, London, pp. 96-110. ISBN 9781848935914
Price, F. (2015) In: The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in the Romantic Period. Cambridge Companion . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 183-197. ISBN 9781107602557
Price, F. (2012) In: Reading Historical Fiction: The Revenant and Remembered Past. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 9780230343139
Price, F. (2004) In: A Companion to Romance: From Classical to Contemporary. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK, pp. 269-286. ISBN 9781405167277
Conference or Workshop Items
Price, F. (2011) In: The Ninth International Scott Conference: Walter Scott: Sheriff and Outlaw, 5-9 Jul 2011, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming. (Submitted)
Price, F. (2011) In: Modern Language Association Convention, Jan 2011. (Submitted)
Books
Price, F. (2016) Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. ISBN 9781474402965 9781474402965
Price, F. and Dew, B. (2014) Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 9781137332639
Price, F. (2011) Chawton House Library: Women's Novels, 11 . Pickering & Chatto Publishers, London. ISBN 9781851962822
Price, F. (2009) Ashgate, Farnham, UK. ISBN 9780754660262
