Women Travel Writers and the Language of Aesthetics, 1716–1818 (Paperback)

1. Aesthetics and Orientalism in Mary Wortley Montagu's letters; 2. Janet Schaw and the aesthetics of colonialism; 3. Landscape aesthetics and the paradox of the female picturesque; 4. Helen Maria Williams' revolutionary landscapes; 5. Mary Wollstonecraft's anti-aesthetics; 6. Dorothy Wordsworth and the cultural politics of scenic tourism; 7. The picturesque and the female sublime in Ann Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho; 8. Aesthetics, gender, and empire in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.