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Podcast: New Books in Women's History
Episode: Zoë McGee, "Courting Disaster: Reading Between the Lines of the Regency Novel" (Manchester UP, 2025)
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 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: Reading Between the Lines of the Regency Novel (Manchester UP, 2025) takes a timely deep-dive into a series of classic novels, comparing them with both historic court re...