Professor Fiona Price
Professor of English Literature
About
Fiona Price is Professor of English Literature at the University of Chichester and author of two monographs, Reinventing Liberty: Nation, Commerce and the Historical Novel from Walpole to Scott (Edinburgh, 2016) and Revolutions in Taste 1773 – 1818: Women Writers and the Aesthetics of Romanticism (Ashgate, 2009). She has edited two historical novels: Jane Porter’s The Scottish Chiefs (1810; Broadview P, 2007) and Sarah Green’s Private History of the Court of England (1808; Pickering and Chatto, 2011.) She is editor, with Benjamin Dew, of the book Historical Writing in Britain 1689-1830: Visions of History (2014) and, with Scott Mason, of Silence, Sublimity and Suppression in the Romantic Period. 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’s Writing entitled “Romantic Women Writers and the Fictions of History” (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 ”National Identities and Regional Affiliations’ (pp. 183-97), a chapter on ‘Romancing the Past: Women’s Historical Fiction, Editorial Pains and Practices’ in Editing Women’s Writing, ed. Amy Culley and Anna Fitzer (Routledge, forthcoming) and a chapter in Reading the (Re)Presented Past: Literature & Historical Consciousness, 1700 to the Present (Palgrave, 2012). Other publications in this area include “Resisting ‘The Spirit of Innovation’: Jane Porter and the Other Historical Novel” (Modern Language Review 101.3 [2006]: 638-52) and “‘Ancient Liberties’: Rewriting the Historical Novel: Thomas Leland, Horace Walpole, and Clara Reeve” (Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies 34.1 [2011]: 19-38).
Fiona is a founding member of the South Coast Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Research Group, which aims to provide a dynamic research environment for staff and postgraduates working in the long eighteenth century. She co-ordinates the UG modules Restoration to Romanticism, Genre Prose Fiction, and Gothic, Romanticism and Women’s Writing, as well as 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. Reinventing Liberty: Nation, Commerce and the Historical Novel from Walpole to Scott (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016).
Price, Fiona and Dew, Benjamin, ed. British Historical Writing from 1688-1830: Visions of History (Palgrave, 2014).
Price, Fiona. Revolutions in Taste: Women’s Writing and the Aesthetics of Romanticism 1773-1818 (Ashgate, 2009) (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 Woodstock”, Yearbook of English Studies 47.1 (2017) pp. 110-124.
“Prosthetic Pasts: H.P. Lovecraft and the Politics of History.” Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture, 49.2 (2016) pp. 135-158.
“‘A Great Deal of History’: Romantic Women Writers and Historical Fiction’”. Introduction to Women’s Writing 19.3 (2012): 259-272.
“‘Experiments on an Air-Pump’: History, Jane West and The Loyalists (1812).” Women’s Writing 19.3 (2012): 315-332.
“‘Ancient Liberties’: Rewriting the Historical Novel: Thomas Leland, Horace Walpole, and Clara Reeve.” Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies 34.1 (2011): 19-38.
“Resisting ‘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 (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)
“Romancing the Past: Women’s Historical Fiction, Editorial Pains and Practices,” in Amy Culley and Anna Fitzer, eds. Editing Women’s Writing, 1670-1840. Chawton House Library Series. Pickering and Chatto, 2017.
“National Identities, and Regional Affiliations.” Cambridge 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. Historical Writing in Britain, 1688-1830: Visions of History (Palgrave, 2014), pp. 145-161.
“The Uses of History: The Historical Novel in the Post-French Revolution Debate and Cornelia Ellis Knight’s Marcus Flaminius (1792).” Reading the (Re)Presented Past: Literature & Historical Consciousness, 1700 to the Present. Ed. Kate Mitchell and Nicola Parsons. Palgrave, 2013.
‘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
Research Interests
Fiona Price’s 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) The Politics of Fear: Gothic Histories, the English Civil War and Walter Scott’s Woodstock. Yearbook of English Studies, 47. pp. 110-124. ISSN 0306-2473 10.5699/yearenglstud.47.2017.0110
Price, F. (2016) Prosthetic Pasts: H.P. Lovecraft and the Politics of History. Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture, 49 (2). pp. 135-158. ISSN 0016-6928 10.1215/00166928-3512297
Price, F. (2012) “Experiments made by the airpump”: Jane West's 'The Loyalists' (1812) and the science of history. Women's Writing, 19 (3). pp. 315-382. ISSN 1747-5848 10.1080/09699082.2012.666416
Price, F. (2012) “A great deal of history”: Romantic women writers and historical fiction. Women's Writing, 19 (3). pp. 259-272. ISSN 1747-5848 10.1080/09699082.2012.666413
Price, F. (2011) Ancient liberties? Rewriting the historical novel: Thomas Leland, Horace Walpole and Clara Reeve. Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies, 34 (1). pp. 19-38. 10.1111/j.1754-0208.2011.00345.x
Price, F. (2002) Democratizing taste: Scottish common sense philosophy and Elizabeth Hamilton. Romanticism, 8 (2). pp. 179-196. ISSN 1750-0192 10.3366/rom.2002.8.2.179
Book Sections
Price, F. (2023) The aesthetics of the Romantic Period and women’s writing. In: The Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century. Oxford Handbooks . Oxford University Press, C27S1-C27N1. ISBN 9780197558898 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197558898.013.27
Price, F. (2022) Historical fiction in the Romantic Period: Jane Porter, Walter Scott and the Sublime Hero. In: Studying English literature in context: critical readings. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 220-235. ISBN 9781108782999
Price, F. (2021) Performing history: theatricality, gender, the early historical novel and Scott. In: Walter Scott at 250: looking forward. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 124-141. ISBN 9781474429870
Price, F. (2017) Romancing the Past: Women’s Historical Fiction, Editorial Pains and Practices. In: Editing Women's Writing, 1670–1840. Routledge, London, pp. 96-110. ISBN 9781848935914
Price, F. (2015) National Identities and Regional Affiliations. 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) The uses of history: the historical novel in the post-French Revolution debate and Cornelia Ellis Knight’s "Marcus Flaminius", 1792. In: Reading Historical Fiction: The Revenant and Remembered Past. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 9780230343139
Price, F. (2004) "Inconsistent rhapsodies": Samuel Richardson and the politics of romance. 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) The "healthiest" of authors? Scott, the "kingdom of fiction" and the post-1760 British historical novel. In: The Ninth International Scott Conference: Walter Scott: Sheriff and Outlaw, 5-9 Jul 2011, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming. (Submitted)
Price, F. (2011) Thaddeus of Warsaw, Historical Fictions of Empire, and the National Tale. In: Modern Language Association Convention, Jan 2011. (Submitted)
Books
Price, F. (2016) Reinventing Liberty: Nation, Commerce and the Historical Novel from Walpole to Scott. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. ISBN 9781474402965 9781474402965
Price, F. and Dew, B. (2014) Historical Writing in Britain 1688-1830: Visions of History. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 9781137332639
Price, F. (2011) The Private History of the Court of England 1808 by Sarah Green. Chawton House Library: Women's Novels, 11 . Pickering & Chatto Publishers, London. ISBN 9781851962822
Price, F. (2009) Revolutions in Taste, 1773-1818: Women Writers and the Aesthetics of Romanticism. Ashgate, Farnham, UK. ISBN 9780754660262
