{"product_id":"courting-disaster-zoz-mcgee-9781526188878","title":"Courting Disaster: Gender, Power and Consent from the Regency Novel to #Metoo","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat do #MeToo and Jane Austen have in common? More than you might think. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \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... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Drawing parallels with the #MeToo movement, this book explores how a series of brilliant female authors in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries cleverly used the novel as a vehicle for ground-breaking discussions about consent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Zoë McGee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1526188872\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781526188878\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/09\/2027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Zoë McGee","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50546648744191,"sku":"9781526188878","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/courting-disaster-zoz-mcgee-9781526188878","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}