Courting Disaster
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-8885-4 (ISBN)
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… -- .
Zoë 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. -- .
Introduction
Part I: Consent
1 Clarissa, or The Perfect Victim Myth
2 Cecilia, or Credit and Credibility
3 Jane Doe, or Misreading the Room
Part II: Innocence
4 Ophelia, or Resisting the Unknown
5 Camilla & Eugenia, or What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You
6 Evelina, or The Value of Virginity
Part III: Violence
7 Anon., or The Context of the Courtroom
8 Mary, or Violating Convention
9 Theodora & Dorothea, or The Bystander Effect
Part IV: Marriage
10 Elinor, or Honouring Engagements
11 Fanny, or The Price of Refusal
12 Anne, or Negotiating the Future
Conclusion
Index -- .
| Erscheinungsdatum | 28.10.2025 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 7 black & white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 487 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5261-8885-6 / 1526188856 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-8885-4 / 9781526188854 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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