{"product_id":"9781526188854","title":"Courting Disaster : Reading Between the Lines of the Regency Novel - Zoe McGee","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat 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 Zo� 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. -- .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zoe McGee","offers":[{"title":"336 pages, 7 black \u0026 white illustrations \/ 04\/11\/2025 \/ c 1700 to c 1800","offer_id":56968254914935,"sku":"9781526188854","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9781526188854.jpg?v=1780937240","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781526188854","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}