Courting Disaster: Reading Between the Lines of the Regency Novel

di Zoë McGee (Autore)

Manchester University Press, 2025

What do #MeToo and Jane Austen have in common? More than you might think. 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… -- .

• Autore: Zoë McGee
• Editore: Manchester University Press
• Anno: 2025
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 336 p.
• Dimensioni: 216 x 138 mm
• Peso: 487 gr.
• EAN: 9781526188854

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