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Gender, surveillance, and literature in the Romantic period : 1780-1830 /

Thompson, Lucy E.,

Gender, surveillance, and literature in the Romantic period : 1780-1830 / Lucy E. Thompson. - 1 online resource. - Routledge studies in surveillance .

Introduction ⁰́₈Ev⁰́₉ry key hole is an informer⁰́₉: Surveillance Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries1. The Sexual Body: Slut-Shaming and Surveillance in Sophia Lee⁰́₉s The Chapter of Accidents2. The Medically Surveilled Body: Gendered Experiences of the Paramedical Gaze3. Surveillance and the Displaced Body: Charlotte Smith⁰́₉s What Is She?4. The Domiciliary Body: Archio-Surveillance in Joanna Baillie⁰́₉s The Alienated Manor and Jane Austen⁰́₉s Mansfield Park5. The Urban Body: Women, Geosurveillance, and the CityConclusion: Regimes of Hyper-Visibility

"Romantic-era literature offers a key message: surveillance, in all its forms, was experienced distinctly and differently by women than men. 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. The book combines the insights of modern Surveillance Studies with Romantic scholarship. It provides readers with a new context in which to understand Romantic-period texts and looks critically at emerging paradigms of surveillance directed at marginal groups, as well as resistance to such monitoring. Works by writers such as Jane Austen, Charlotte Smith, and Joanna Baillie, as well as Lord Byron and Thomas De Quincey give a new perspective on the age that produced the Panopticon. This book is designed to appeal to a wide readership, and is aimed at students and scholars of surveillance, literature, Romanticism, and gender politics, as well as those interested in important strands of women's experience not only for the additional layers they reveal about the Romantic era but also for their relevance to current debates around asymmetries of power within gendered surveillance"--

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Surveillance in literature.
English literature--History and criticism.--18th century
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Women in literature.
Domestic intelligence--History.--Great Britain
Surveillance detection--History.--Great Britain
Literature and society--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Literature and society--History--Great Britain--19th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General

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