{"product_id":"courting-disaster-zo-mcgee-9781526188854","title":"Courting Disaster","description":"What do #MeToo and Jane Austen have in common? More than you might think.\nEver 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.\nCourting 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.\n 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...","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50901158330656,"sku":"9781526188854","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9781526188854.jpg?v=1780955957","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/courting-disaster-zo-mcgee-9781526188854","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}