{"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\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/04\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781526188854\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336","brand":"Zo\u0026#195;\u0026#171; McGee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51948723765429,"sku":"9781526188854","price":25.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_65556703-418c-4f79-ae16-a6a911b91ec5.jpg?v=1762272547","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/courting-disaster-reading-between-the-lines-of-the-regency-novel-9781526188854","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}