{"product_id":"courting-disaster-reading-between-the-lines-of-the-regency-novel-9781526188854","title":"Courting Disaster: Reading Between the Lines of the Regency Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat do #MeToo and Jane Austen have in common? More than you might think. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEver 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCourting 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZoë McGee has a PhD from Queen Mary University of London and an MSt in eighteenth-century studies from the University of Oxford. She has spoken at conferences internationally and now performs at very nerdy stand-up comedy nights. Among other things, she has worked as a university teacher, a bookseller and a professional board-game-explainer. She owns too many books and is a competitive ballroom dancer in her spare time.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764116816146,"sku":"9781526188854","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_44fd6be9-b348-4b46-acda-ee9fe0a9a09e.jpg?v=1764756571","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/courting-disaster-reading-between-the-lines-of-the-regency-novel-9781526188854","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}