1st Edition
Gender, Surveillance, and Literature in the Romantic Period 1780–1830
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
Biography
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.
