Courting Disaster

The Fight for Consent from the Regency Novel to #Metoo

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Beschreibung

<p>What do #MeToo and Jane Austen have in common? More than you might think.</p>Ever since the novel was invented, women have used it as a platform for sharing ideas about sexual consent. Dr Zoë McGee reveals how Jane Austen, Frances Burney and their now-overlooked contemporaries used their stories to try to change society's mind about rape culture - and to reassure survivors they were not alone. Courting Disaster takes a timely deep-dive into a series of classic novels, comparing them with both historic court records and current events to show that our arguments about consent are not a new phenomenon. With the wit and wryness of a courtship novel, McGee reads between the lines to unveil a quiet feminist movement that still resonates today. Because every novel about marriage is also a novel about consent. In an era that's clamouring for a return to the values of the past, Courting Disaster asks what that would really mean, and whether anyone actually liked it back then anyway...

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781526188854

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Buch

Maße

220 x 139 x 32 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2025

Verlag / Hersteller

Manchester University Press