Alison Light – Inside History
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-8155-7 (ISBN)
Alison Light – Inside History addresses a number of the central preoccupations within feminist cultural criticism over this period: the nature of writing by women and what women writers might or might not share; the place of such writing in any literary history or cultural analysis; the politics of popular culture and the question of pleasure; women’s relation to ideas of national identity and other forms of belonging; and finally, their contribution to life-writing in its different genres. The volume offers a lively, wide-ranging way into feminist debates, touching on a number of major authors from Alice Walker to Virginia Woolf, on genre fiction, and on the writing of memoir and biography. Chronologically arranged, the essays and short ‘think-pieces’ chart Alison Light’s own intellectual formation as a critic and writer within a wider collective politics. This is explored and contextualised in an autobiographical introduction.
Alison Light is a writer and Honorary Professor in the Department of English, University College London; she is also an Honorary Professorial Fellow at Edinburgh University and a non-stipendiary Senior Research Fellow in English and History at Pembroke College Oxford. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the author of a number of books, including Common People: The History of an English Family (Penguin 2014), which was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford prize, and her most recent, A Radical Romance, which won the 2020 PEN Ackerley prize for memoir. She writes regularly for the London Review of Books.
Series Editors’ PrefaceAcknowledgements
Introduction: Reading Oneself Backwards
Part I From Fiction to Nation
1. ‘Returning to Manderley’: Romance Fiction, Female Sexuality and Class
2. Fear of the Happy Ending: The Color Purple, Reading and Racism
3. Young Bess: Historical Novels and Growing Up
4. Outside History? Stevie Smith, Women Poets and the National Voice
Part II Short Cuts
5. The Vampire and the Dog: Caryl Churchill’s Mad Forest
6. Women Writers and Conservative Sensibilities
7. Against Empathy
8. The Mighty Mongrel: on Biography
9. Hitchcock’s Rebecca: A Woman’s Film?
10. Re-reading Great Expectations
11. The Figure of the Servant
12. Experiments in Memoir-writing
Part III Writing Lives
13. A Woolf in Dog’s Clothing: Flush
14. Fascism, Fear and Feminism: Virginia Woolf’s Three Guineas
15. Addicted to Diaries: The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt
16. Writing the Lives of ‘Common People’: Reflections on the Idea of Obscurity
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.11.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | The Feminist Library: Essays in Cultural Criticism |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4744-8155-8 / 1474481558 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-8155-7 / 9781474481557 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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