Courting Disaster - Zoë McGee

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 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.Courting Disaster takes a timely deep-dive into a series of classic novels, comparing them with both historic... Zobrazit více