Gender, Surveillance, and Literature in the Romantic Period: 1780-1830

ISBN-13: 9780367856762 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 176 str.

Lucy E. Thompson

Opis

Gender, Surveillance, and Literature in the Romantic Period examines how familiar and neglected texts internalise and interrogate the ways in which targeted, asymmetric, and often isolating surveillance made women increasingly and uncomfortably visible in a way that still resonates today.

 

Spis treści

Introduction : ‘Ev’ry key hole is an informer’: Surveillance Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries  1. The Sexual Body: Slut-Shaming and Surveillance in Sophia Lee’s The Chapter of Accidents  2. The Medically Surveilled Body: Gendered Experiences of the Paramedical Gaze  3. Surveillance and the Displaced Body: Charlotte Smith’s What Is She?  4. The Domiciliary Body: Archio-Surveillance in Joanna Baillie’s The Alienated Manor and Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park  5. The Urban Body: Women, Geosurveillance, and the City 

O autorze

Lucy E. Thompson is a lecturer in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University. She works on nineteenth-century literature and the emotional impacts of surveillance in historical and contemporary settings, focused on gender and literary culture.