Lucy E Thompson

Gender, Surveillance, and Literature in the Romantic Period

1780-1830

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9780367856762
• ISBN-10: 036785676X
• Artikelnr.: 62571413

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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