Zoë McGee
Literary scholar and author of Courting Disaster: Reading Between the Lines in the Regency Novel, specializing in 18th- and 19th-century literature and discussions of gender and consent in historical context.
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Mar 9, 2026 • 1h 5min
782 Consent in the Regency Novel (with Zoë McGee)
Zoë McGee, a literary scholar and author of Courting Disaster who studies Regency novels and gender, explores how 18th- and 19th-century fiction grapples with consent. She compares novels by Austen, Burney and others with court records. Short, clear conversations cover legal definitions, marriage and autonomy, patterns in trials, and why we sentimentalize the Regency.
