{"product_id":"9781526188854","title":"Courting Disaster : Reading Between the Lines of the Regency Novel by Zoe McGee","description":"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 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. -- .\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368056959349,"sku":"9781526188854","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781526188854.jpg?v=1763548550","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781526188854","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}