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Gender, Surveillance, and Literature in the Romantic Period: 1780-1830
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.
| Author(s) | By Lucy E. Thompson (Aberystwyth University, UK). |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format | Paperback / softback |
| Pages | 176 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 31 May 2023 |
| Availability | POD |
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.
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 Experienc
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
