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1. Aesthetics and Orientalism in Mary Wortley Montagu's letters; 2.Janet Schaw and the aesthetics of colonialism; 3. Landscape aestheticsand 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. Thepicturesque and the female sublime in Ann Radcliffe's Mysteries ofUdolpho; 8. Aesthetics, gender, and empire in Mary Shelley'sFrankenstein.